Description: "The four armorial shields on the wooden chest enable us to
place it fairly accurately as coming from Pisa in the second half of the
thirteenth century."
Credit: Berlin, Museum of Applied Arts. Pub. Recueil du IVe
Congrès International de Vexillologie, Turin, 24-27 June 1971;
pp. 181-186. 2 color pls.
Source: Neubecker
Comments: A full photo of the wooden chest.
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Although larger than what we would consider normal, these flags are pennons
because they are shown as being flown from spears
and the devices are correct viewed when the spears are held "at charge"
(horizontally). This is can be clearly seen in the pennon on the far right,
where the white fess is horizontal on both the horse's
trappings and the shield.
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