File:Flag of Birmingham.png

This is an original drawing by User:Dystopos of the Flag of Birmingham based on the description in Birmingham's First Magic Century, Were You There? by Bertha Bendall Norton. (Birmingham: Lakeshore Press, 1970), and on an image found in the "American City Flags Survey" conducted by the North American Vexillological Association in 2004. link - accessed May 17, 2006.

Notes

• The design specifies that the official seal of Birmingham appears in the center of the hub (which is at the center of the star). The official seal of Birmingham could not have depicted Vulcan on his tower when the flag was designed in 1921. I do not know what Birmingham's seal looked like at that time.
• The design also specifies that the date "1871" would appear on the seal, but I'm not sure where.
• The photograph in Norton's book shows 67 rays, one for each small star. I am showing approximately twice as many in this version, which more closely matches the NAVA image (though the NAVA image does not appear to have smaller stars at all).
• The colors are "white, red and gold", the specifics for which are open to interpretation depending on the pigments, dyes or pixels at hand.
• The proportions are based on the NAVA image. The photograph in Norton's book appears to show a more typical 3:4 ratio of hoist to fly, with much narrower red bars.