Spitsbergen Logo on stamp (Svalbard) (original) (raw)

Franciae Vexilla [frv] # 16/62 (December 1999) has its main contribution on Svalbard archipelago, with a very limited flag-related content.

- Between 1896 and 1913, private post stamps were released, one of them showing the "first blazon of Svalbard". The shield is azure with a polar bear, a white star in chief and another, tilted white star in point. A scroll above the shield reads SPITSBERGEN.

[- In 1989 were adopted the arms of the Norwegian governor: an azure shield with silver islands fimbriated in gold and golden scripture (in chief SYSSELMANNEN, in point SVALBARD). The position was suppressed in 1994 when the archipelago was attached to the fylke (county) of Nordland.

- The flag of Svalbard is rectangular with blue and white vairs, charged with a golden armed lion fimbriated in black.]

Ivan Sache, 19 December 1999