Re: [Flags] Atypical depiction on stamp of the 1978 Comoros flag

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António Martins-Tuválkin

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Mar 7, 2012, 8:55:51 PM3/7/12
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While checking some old KM material I noticed that something that Ivan
Sache <ivan.sache@...> wrote on Sat Jun 7, 2008 6:11 am was not
answered:

> António wrote:
>>
>> This is the design which reported in [clv02]: a ~1:2 green flag large
>> white crescent pointing to the fly (with white 4 stars) offset to the
>> hoist, as illustrated and reported by Ivan. I do not agree with the
>> author’s choice to classify this shade of green as dark, though: it
>> looks regular medium green to me.
>
> This was in no way an attempt of classification but a comparison with
> the shade used in my original image, to explain why I had decided to
> modify the image.

When I wrote «the author» I meant not Ivan, but Calvarin, who wrote
«dark green» in his text and illustrated it with what seems to me
(upon Ivan’s rendering of it) regular, medium green.

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