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France flag, France Army cravat.

Sub-collection: de Young Museum

France Army Cravat
Although this has been labeled as a scarf, it served as a flag important accessory, a "cravat". From 1690 onward French military flagstaffs were decorated with a piece of white fabric resembling a scarf and with bullion fringe at either end.

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