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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2017
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The flag has a ratio between 5:8 and 2:3 and it is made of printed sticker
paper (the reverse most probably being identical, to be readable, not mirrored/chiral)
glued on blank plastic flags (apparently always red).
This is both a
commercial flag and a fictional flag: It is a (real world) commercial flag
because it features a real-world company logo; if this design is not actually
used as a flag in the real world, then this is a flagoid (ersatz flag). And it
is also a fictional flag because it is part of the elements created by the toy
manufacturer to enable the self styled “fictional universe” that playing with
them makes (why would all ranches, forts, and camps of said universe fly the
same exact flag is a blind spot.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2017
To be fair, there’s at least two more flag types in the Lincoln Logs version
of the U.S. 19th century frontier: the national flag and a yellow triangular
pennant. The latter comes with set Big L Ranch:
http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Log-Big-L-Ranch/dp/B0002593NS,
http://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416BJRWH2EL.jpg (it may be
present in other sets, too). It is made of solid yellow plastic, no printed
stickers, and it is longish, about 1:2. It seems to stand for nothing in
particular, just a generic/ornamental/placeholder flag.
The national
flag features as a never-existed, 13-stripes 16-stars version (anachronistic
expected future flag in 1795-1818; cp. actual 13-stripes 16-stars) on the box of
one of the earlier sets [http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/1/17/115.405]
[http://www.museumofplay.org/online-collections/images/Z009/Z00946/Z0094630.jpg].
It seems to show a 4×4 block pattern, not staggered, although the sketchy
artwork showing a fluttering flag makes it hard to guess the original intention.
(I don’t know whether the set thus boxed included a flag, nor about other boxes
or their contents).
At least one other Lincoln Logs set includes U.S.
historical national flags: [http://qvc.scene7.com/is/image/QVC/t/69/t101069.001]
[http://www.qvc.com/Lincoln-Logs-Frontier-Fort.product.T101069.html]
Frontier Fort (with the Lincoln Logs sticker glued on its gate beam) includes
both a 13-star flag in “Betsy Ross” (ring) arrangement and a 20-star flag in
Great Star arrangement.
These are also, as said for the Lincoln Logs
brand flag, made of printed sticker paper glued on blank plastic flags — and we
have now sort of confirmation that its is likely always red, for these two U.S.
historical national flags seem to have only 11 stripes on paper (starting and
ending in white): The impression of the outer stripes being given by the visible
edges or the red plastic all around, and such red border being present also atop
the canton and along the fly doesn’t ruin the illusion. Given the specific
constraints of the medium, this seems to be a smart solution.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 7 July 2017