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Jul 16, 2016 · The municipal standard flag features an image of the Trimountain on the back and a fringe of Continental buff. The City flag has no image on the back and no fringe. The image on the City flag is either painted on or woven into the fabric. The flag fabric is silk.
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The flag of Boston consists of a sky blue field and the seal of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, in the center. The flag is sometimes flown in a darker shade of blue, more of a turquoise. It was designed in 1913 and adopted by the Boston City Council on January 29, 1917.
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The Columbus Day Committee proposed the City Flag in 1913. It was introduced into the City Council 16 January 1914 but was not adopted until 30 January 1917. The design is the City Seal in dark blue on white and buff centered on a dark blue field. The proportions are 7:10. The City Seal was designed in 1823 and slightly modified in 1827. Designed b...
The shade of blue is "Continental" blue (as in the Continental Army of 1776), but every representation I have ever seen here in town is a light blue. I don't think it has to do with fading in the weather. Either the manufacturer doesn't know the official specifications, or someone changed them. The "yellow" is supposed to be "buff" (again, a 1776 u...
image by Dave Martucci, 1 November 2015 Source:http://www.masshome.com/ Paul Bassinson, 21 August 2019
I have studied Boston's flag history for decades. Most of the images that exist are technically wrong as are most of the flags that exist. Here is a synopsis of my research to date.
image by Dave Martucci, 26 January 2019 There is an actual color photograph of the obverse of the 1913 Columbus Day Municipal Standard laid out on an undated proof sheet supplied by a publisher to the Boston Arts Commission (BAC) which tantalizingly refers to an image of the Trimountain seal on page 70. Unfortunately, no book with these images appe...
image by Dave Martucci, 27 January 2019 On St. Patrick’s Day, 17 March, Boston becomes Irish in every way. Widely displayed on that day is “Sully’s Irish Flag” (technically named “Sully’s Irish Logo Banner”). It is the Irish tricolor with the white bar transformed into a shamrock. Some consider it Boston’s unofficial flag for that day.https://www.s...
image located by Esteban Rivera, 16 April 2023 For the 2008 Olympic Games, the cities that applied to become candidate cities for 2008 Summer Olympics were Bangkok, Cairo, Havana, Kuala Lumpur and Seville. Candidate cities (cities which were granted "candidate city" status and thus were allowed to use the Olympic Rings in their proposal) were Beiji...
May 12, 2016 · Boston’s current city flag. Adopted in 1917, it’s a Continental Blue sheet with the city’s seal placed center and ringed in Continental Bluff (yellow). Like many city flags, it’s not...
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Mar 6, 2019 · Residents would be excused if they were unaware Boston had a flag. With the city’s 1800s-era seal on a blue background, it flies outside Boston City Hall and at Boston Common, and...
