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Not all municipalities use flags for themselves, but all
municipalities are
considered to have a flag in the form of a banner-of-arms if they have a
coat-of-arms - which, as it is, all of them have nowadays.
Vilhelmina is a municipality in northern Sweden. I haven't found any evidence as
to if it uses a flag, but if it was using a flag, I suppose it would use the
colour specifications given in the municipality's graphic profile:
http://www.vilhelmina.se/homepage_vilhelmina/_Huvudrubrik%20AO/Manualer/Grafisk%20profil.pdf?Templates=vilpublisering&leftmenutop=ao&tconf=Manualer
The crown in the arms is for Queen Fredrika Dorothea Vilhelmina, the wife of
King Gustaf IV Adolf. The parish and therefor the municipality is named for her.
The hat is a traditional hat of the Saami people and the spears are for hunting
wolves. The arms were suggested by Mr. Verner Ahlberg, who was a precentor in
Vilhelmina.
Elias Granqvist, 06 June 2011
The official blazon of the arms in Swedish, written in 1949 and re-registered
in 1981: "I silver två korslagda blå vargspjut, försedda nedtill med skoning och
upptill med renhornsslida över spetsen, allt i rött, under en med röda bårder på
silver försedd blå lappmössa, med tre kilar synliga, och däröver en av en
vågskura bildad blå ginstam, belagd med en öppen krona av silver."
Litterature: [nev92], pp. 157-8.
Elias Granqvist, 06 June 2011
Well, that may be so, but in 1949 there were two Vilhelmina-s, if I got this
right: Town and country. Does that mean these were the arms for one of them?
That must have been town, then, as country had different arms, which I
absent-mindedly forgot to bookmark. That would lead us to the question of how
long municipal arms in Sweden have implied a banner of arms, as it might mean
country had a BoA as well.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 06 June 2011
The present arms were for the town (köping) in those days. Banners of arms
were used for municipalities in those days too. I acctually don't know when the
practice started, but I think it goes back to at least the early 20th Century.
Elias Granqvist, 06 June 2011
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image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 07
June 2011
OK, so (now that I found another reference) these would de jure have had a
banner of arms as well:
http://www.debatthuset.com/forums/showpost.php?p=440915&postcount=60:
Quoting Marcus Karlsson: "Vilhelmina landskommun, vapnet fastställt av Kungl.
Maj:t 1950.09.15 och upphört 1965.01.01.
Blasonering: i blått fält under en krona två av vågskuror bildade bjälkar, allt
av silver.
Kronan syftar på den namngivande drottningen - Gustaf IV Adolfs hustru.
Bjälkarna syftar på älvdalaran Kultsjödalen och Malgomajdalen."
(Vilhelmina rural municipality, arms established by the Crown 15 September 1950
and ended 1 January 1965.
Blazon: Blue, below a crown two bars wavy all argent. The crown refers to
the queen of its name - Gustaf IV Adolf's wife. The bars refer to the dales of
Kultsjödalen and Malgomajdalen.)
From the same page, a grey-scale
image of the arms.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 07 June 2011
