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image by Željko Heimer, 3 January
2000
Sources: Meyers Lexicon (1897); National Geographic Magazine (1917)
Meyers (1897) describes the pilot signaling
flag since 1880 as "war ensign with white border".
Željko Heimer, 1 December 2001
Pilot flag from Webster's New International Dictionary (WNID),
circa 1924 plates.
image by Phil Nelson and Željko Heimer, 3 January
2000
Pilot signaling flag
image by Phil Nelson
and Željko Heimer, 3 January 2000
Here is also a pilot signaling flag shown in Znamierowski
(2000),
page 21, in a chart attributed to an unnamed book by J.W. Norie,
augmented by J.S. Hobbs (1848) similar to the one shown in WNID
as above, but with a gold border.
Phil Nelson, 3 January 2000
Bellin's 1756 chart shows a pilot signaling
flag as red-white-red with coat of arms in the middle and bordered yellow.
Željko Heimer, 1 December 2001
This is in contrast to the war ensign where the coat of arms is offset to the hoist,
the coat of arms is centred on the pilot flags.
Marco Pribilla, 16 October 2001