Spanish Civil War, Republican, Ratio 2:3 Military Flag.

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Was £865 now £695

The flag of the Second Spanish Republic, known in Spanish as ‘la tricolor’, was the official flag of Spain between 1931 and 1939 and was the flag of the Spanish Republican government in exile until 1977.
The flag began to be used on April 27, 1931, thirteen days after municipal election results led to the abolition of the monarchy and the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic. This same flag had been previously displayed by certain Republican groups as an alternative to the red-and-yellow flag that they identified with the Bourbon Monarchy, because of this previous use, the young republic eagerly adopted this symbol.
The flag presented to the army of the nation on May 6 with the following words:
"The national uprising against tyranny, victorious since April 14, has hoisted a flag that is invested by means of the feelings of the people with the double representation of the hope of freedom and of its irreversible triumph."
The flag was formed by three horizontal bands of the same width, red, yellow, and dark purple. The military version of the flag, with a proportion of 2:3 and without the coat of arms was used by Republican Army units, with the International Brigades adding a three-pointed red star to the centre.
This ‘salty, battle scarred’ flag is a very, very rare chance to acquire an almost irreplaceable relic of the conflict.
Priced to reflect the symbolism and rarity of an extraordinary survivor from the period of Franco’s dictatorship where such objects were destroyed for fear of arrest.

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