Felgueiras Municipality (Portugal)

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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• Yellow and black variation?

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• Page about the municipal flag and coat of arms of Felgueiras at Sérgio Horta’s website (in Portuguese).
  reported by Jorge Candeias, 29 Feb 1999
• Municipal website, with wrong image (see bellow).
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 13 Jul 1999
• Page about Felgueiras at the Portuguese Municipalities’s Association website (incl. image of the arms)
  reported by António Martins, 18 Nov 2001

Yellow and black variation?

At the Municipal website, probably also a wrong image. Our sources show a yellow and purple gyronny. I could believe that one of us made an error is it wasn’t the fact that the law on civic heraldry stipulates that the flag must be made with the colours present in the charges in the arms. And there’s nothing black in this coat of arms, except the border. And a border ain’t a charge.
Jorge Candeias, 15 Jul 1999

I’d say it’s simply an ill scanned image: the dark background pixels, though almost black, have a slight purplish tinge, which becomes evident when you set your monitor to maximum luminousity (high color bleed).
António Martins, 06 Sep 2001