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Description: | Blue Ensign with the badge of the Gold Coast. The ensign is made of wool bunting with a linen hoist and is machine sewn with a rope halyard attached. The ends are sewn and the sides are the selvedges of the fabric. The field is blue with a Union Flag in the canton. It has a printed circular badge depicting a brown elephant under a palm tree with the letters 'G.C' below. The ensign is inscribed 'MP' on the hoist.
The design was used 1877-1957 when the Gold Coast was under British rule. It was granted self government as Ghana on 6 March 1957.
caption: Blue Ensign of the Gold Coast
caption: unavailable | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | ensigns | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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