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This flag was first adopted on 1826.07.25
(in use until 1851).
In 1838 General Santa Cruz created the
Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation.
Bolivia was one of three states in the confederation.
In 1839, General Santa Cruz was overthrown and the
confederation was disbanded.
Jaume Ollé, 26 Jul 1996
The constituent congress of 1826 modified the First Flag by Law promulgated on July 25th of 1826:
The national flag will be the same that was designed by the General Assembly in the Law of august 17th replacing the five golden stars by one upper yellow stripe and the Republic arms in the middle, inside two branches of laurel and olive.
Then it means that in the flag of 1825 was replaced the upper green stripe by one yellow, and the five stars of the middle stripe was replaced by the republic arms.
Héctor Beltrán, 08 Aug 2004
The shade of the red is unknow to me. I can only
speculate about the same punzó, as the most
frequent red.
Jaume Ollé, 23 May 1998
In 1851 the flag of today was
introduced, the coat of arms being modified
(once again) in 1888.07.14, thus being the
introduction date of all sources.
Ralf Stelter, 13 Jun 1999
Another question is the wreath: the 1825 flag has laurel and olive wreath
and seems possible that the same remain in the 1826 flag. Perhaps (following
a peruvian pattern) the arms were depicted in the center but sourronded by
the wreath instead the oval. Jordi Hurtado report the flag with arms with
oval, but I believe that the image was made from write description (the law
says only «with the arms in center»).
Jaume Ollé, 11 Jun 1999
According to an official Historia de la Bandera Boliviana
[b9oXX],
the flag had even stripes and the 1826 arms were
modified for the flag.
Christopher Southworth, 20 Jul 2003
The flag was sometimes
used with same proportions of stripes as the bicolored
flag of 1825, as the law was
incomplete (it did not say anything about the stripes’
sizes).
Ralf Stelter, 13 Jun 1999
According to an official Historia de la Bandera Boliviana
[qboXX],
only the previous flag had uneven stripes.
Christopher Southworth, 20 Jul 2003
Found this
on a postcard in Häger’s Filatelie Encyclopedie
(Alphen aan den Rijn: Brussel, 1979. 2 vols: p. 567, vol. 2).
On the same postcard is a stamp issued in 1894.
The coat-of-arms on this flag does seem to contain a pyramid,
in fact it’s a mountain.
There are 18 (French?) postcards from the same period
(c. 1880-1890) about 18 different countries,
issued by the same instance, but there is no reference to
the author. They seem to be quite recent (c. 1970?)
and its vexillological accuracy might not be very high.
Jarig Bakker, 03 Jun 1999 and 08 Jun 1999
Could be a variation of the 1826 flag,
at least it has the same stripe order.
The date 1894 is however strange, since the
current flag was
adopted in 1851…
Maybe it was a commemorative or historical postcard?
António Martins, 06 Jun 1999
In accordance to
http://www.bolivia.com/Especiales2002/6_de_agosto/simbolos/bandera2.asp,
the second bolivian flag has the coat of arms is a little different.
This flag is the result of a modification made by the law of 25
july of 1826, when Antonio José Sucre was the president of Bolivia.
Which flag is the correct?
André Godinho, 20 Jul 2003
According to an official Historia de la Bandera
Boliviana [qboXX],
these are the national arms as adopted on 17 August
1825 (but not used on
the flag) which were, in any case, replaced in 1826.
Christopher Southworth, 20 Jul 2003
