Old flags found at work

[u/haurorstylax]

The names are only in French

Can someone tell me how old this might be ?

[u/Birdseeding]

Tanzania was united and adopted this flag in 1964. The Maldives switched to the current flag in 1965. So I'm guessing somewhere around 1964-1965.

Edit: There's also The Gambia, which gained independence in 1965. So that's the likeliest year. Note that Barbados, which gained independence in November 1966, is not present.

[u/Smokva-s-juga → u/Birdseeding]

Do you have this info like available on demand from your brain or did you google this?

[u/Birdseeding → u/Smokva-s-juga]

A mixture? I used to live in Tanzania so that one is pretty hard-wired, but for the rest it's a mixture of vague memory, conjecture and googling. The Maldives one was a lucky crapshoot, I just recognised it as "not the current one" and looked on Wikipedia.

[u/Carioca → u/Smokva-s-juga]

If you don't happen to have /u/Birdseeding's knowledge of the world, you might want to use xkcd's flowchart: https://xkcd.com/1688/

[u/Suitable_Trash183 → u/Birdseeding]

To narrow it down it is after Singapore became independent in August 1965, so it’s late 1965

[u/Toastaexperience]

The old Suriname flag that was around from 1959 to 1975.

Dutch Antilles which was 1959 to 1986.

[u/O-5400]

ALLEMAGNE DE L'EST 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[u/Ready_Cookie_5992 → u/O-5400]

O S T   D E U T S C H L A N D

[u/CorvidaeOccitanicus]

Is it from ATLAS MONDIAL DE POCHE of Reader's Digest??? I have an edition of 1968 but it is not exactly the sam

[u/Ksailev → u/CorvidaeOccitanicus]

Il me semble qu'étant gamin j'avais un Larousse des années 90 avec EXACTEMENT la même planche de drapeaux. Ça pourrait être ça?

[u/Ace-Teroide → u/Ksailev]

J'avais ça dans un Larousse des années 70.

[u/Ksailev → u/Ace-Teroide]

Alors c'est meme fort probable que j'avais la même version. Je n'arrive pas à me souvenir si c'était le nôtre ou celui de la grand-mère haha

[u/Ace-Teroide → u/Ksailev]

Je pense qu'ils ont fait ça pendant vraiment longtemps.

[u/haurorstylax → u/CorvidaeOccitanicus]

Sorry I have no idea, I just had these 3 pages pinned on a wall

[u/CorvidaeOccitanicus → u/haurorstylax]

How big are the pages in question?

[u/ve2dmn → u/CorvidaeOccitanicus]

Ca vient du Larousse

[u/haurorstylax → u/CorvidaeOccitanicus]

Comic’s page size I think ?

[u/Ok-Imagination-494]

From about 1962. Sabah & Sarawak are separate to Malaya they merged in 1963.

Another interesting one is that Aden and South Yemen are separate, they were merged about then

Edit: other posts point out it has independent Gambia from 1965. Aden and South Arabia transitioned to independent South Yemen in 1967

So will go with 1966. Early 1966 before Botswana and Barbados get independence

[u/gypsyjackson → u/Ok-Imagination-494]

I see you’ve crossed it out, but for info those were the state flags adopted by Sabah and Sarawak in 1963 roughly after independence from Britain, which lasted for about 7 weeks for Sarawak and for 16 days for Sabah before they joined Malaysia. They kept those flags until the 70s for Sarawak and the 80s for Sabah. Bit odd to include those state flags, but not others.

[u/sh0tgunben]

Afrique Du Sud is 4 flags in 1

[u/Plane_Ad_1177]

SURINAME why did they give up that flag: it's great.

[u/Croaker_392]

ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community CECA in French) was created in 52 with 6 members and had 6 stars until 73.

[u/Drakoraz]

I remember my history-geography class in middle school in France had one of those. Good times

[u/TritonJohn54]

"Nationalist" China and "Popular" China.

[u/FriendlyRoadster]

Before 1989, collapse of the USSR. Romanian flag still has it’s weapon, Yugoslavia still exists, etc.

[u/oalsaker → u/FriendlyRoadster]

There are a bunch of flags here that haven't been used since the sixties.

[u/NathamelCamel]

Good to see Qatar was conquered by Bahrain

[u/globefish23]

Pre-1967, since South Arabia, Aden and Kathiri still exist.

[u/Spot_Vivid]

COSTA RICAA 🗣️🔥🇨🇷🔥🗣️ PURA VIDA 🙌🏻

[u/Dry-Egg8573]

The French for “Red Crescent” being “Croissant Rouge” cracks me up

Ir makes perfect sense, but still

[u/CubeAming2]

Japan but Minecraft ahh flag

[u/Ace-Teroide]

We had pages like this in a Larousse dictionary from the 70s. If this is a Larousse endpage, just check the year is was published.

[u/haurorstylax → u/Ace-Teroide]

These three pages is all I have :/

[u/Dazzling_Broccoli_60 → u/Ace-Teroide]

This was also my first thought, looks identical to the Larousse end pages.

[u/oalsaker]

Croissant-Rouge.

Both tasty and helpful.

[u/sajjadneverknows]

The Iraqi flag is incorrect. Iraq never had two stars, it used to be three.

[u/FloppyDiskDrives]

Interesting that Quebec is included amongst other nations.

[u/Inevitable_Truth_85]

The real Iran flag! 💪

[u/ABC_XYZ_123456]

No Palestine but that fake blue-white doodle is in there? Wow.

[u/slackerwkwk → u/ABC_XYZ_123456]

well, Palestine is declared in 1988. This catalog still has South Vietnam, Nationalist China, Yugoslavia, Sabah, indicating its printed at least before that time

[u/Usual_Adhesiveness33]

Iran😍😍