I truly have come full circle.
Today I made a sort of decent (partly from memory, partly from a pic on an auncient postcard) flag of King of Prussia, which, I ween, is based on the old Flag of Prussia:
I liked the elongated, almost swanlike s-curve of the neck of the bird (an eagle?). The bird reminds me of the Ukrainian tryzub (trident). The deep cobalt blue and white field with the touch of old gold in the crown is really nice to me.
I made a newer version, using a phoenix as the bird, and without the baubles/coins on the crown:
It doesn't have the gentle s-curve of the neck, but me likey.
I am defs using this for some kingdom on Tirga...hmmmm....
Oh yes... why I have come full-circle. Well, this flag flew at the King of Prussia Plaza (now Mall), the sprawling Basilica to the Almighty Dollar, rife with money changers, shillers, cramers, and mongers.
Nowadays, I avoid that place like the plague (which is easy b/c, as of ca. 1990, there has never been sufficient parking). Wasted way too many quarters in the Spaceport Arcade there.
Oh, and apparently, the Mall (specifically the Court, I think) is one of the locations in M. Nox Shalayman's new flick
Split. I think he touches on a (sub)urban legend about freakies who live behind the walls of the mall and steal unsuspecting mall-rats for all sorts of ultra-violence. Whooo, creeples!
But I saw the flag waving on a postcard, and I thought I'd give it a wing.