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National Museum at Frederiksborg. ... I was in Lübeck when Prof. Magnus Petersen copied the flag in June 1881, and studied it at close hand." ... "the flag is of coarse linen, on which all figures and heraldic images have been painted. The colours are very pale, the blue colour has generally turned grey." (p. 2). Henry Petersen notes that the paint had been applied thinly and that it must have been oil-based paint, since he couldn't dissolve a sample in water. The front and back were painted as mirrors of each other. (page 3). I am not aware of any other images of the original flag, save the (poor) photo mentioned above which is missing the Virgin Mary and Christ. Most books I've seen use the drawing as illustration - e.g. Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon
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Actually, I wasn't even referring to any of that. Is the image we're looking at the 19th century copy, which is in the palace, or are we looking at the original which was destroyed (presumably not), and which is not in Lubeck any longer? The Lubeck bit should probably be a subordinate clause or
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provide the name of his informant, but he description he conveys of the second flag resembles a standard Danish naval flag. This part of the story is consequently open to interpretation and debate, but everybody agrees that this flag was used by a
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