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Örjan Martinsson

Upplands ståndsdragoners provisoriska fana Skånska ståndsdragonernas fana Livdragonernas fana från 1716 Upplands ståndsdragoners fana
Dragoon colour which was originally made 1675 for a Scanian  regiment but was carried by Uppland's Stånd-dragoons 1714-17. Skånska Stånd-dragoon colour from 1714-16. Liv-dragoon colour from 1716. Uppland's Stånd-dragoon colour from 1717.

 

Unknown Dragoon Colours
Blue colour with the Swedish coat of arm within a laurel wreath and the year 1626

189 Company colour (Armémuseum?)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
White colour with a lion fighting an eagle, a motto in German and the name Christina

190 Company colour (Skokloster)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
(Lost when Dorpat capitulated 1656)
Yellow colours with Karl X Gustav's royal cipher within a laurel wreath

191 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
192 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
Filip of Sulchbach's Reg.
(Lost 15 November 1659)

193 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
194 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
195 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
196 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
197 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)
198 Company colour 6 (Copenhagen)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
Red colours with Karl XI's royal cipher and palm leaves.

199 Company colour 1 (AM.068203)
200 Company colour 2 (AM.010364)
Unknown Dragoon Unit

Set from 1676

201 Company colour 1 (AM.068101)
202
Company colour 2 (AM.068033)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
White colour with crossed carbines underneith a motto.

203
Company colour (AM.067980)
Rikskanslern's Regiment
(One of them was lost 28 August 1677)

204 Company colour 1 (AM.010365)
205 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
Uppland 1679-80

205 Company colour 1 (AM.068088)
206 Company colour 2 (AM.068091)
207
Company colour 3 (AM.067917)
Unknown Dragoon Unit

208 Company colour (AM.067978)

No 209-222 are colours for Finnish regiments.
Bohuslän

Set from 1670?

223 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
224 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)


Dorotea Staffenburg's set from 1717
or 1724


271 Colonel's colour (AM.068087)
225 Company colour 1 (AM.067981)
226 Company colour 2 (AM.010367)
227 Company colour 3 (AM.068073)
228
Company colour 4 (AM.019465)

Jämtland

Set from 1675

229:1 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
229:2 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1674

230 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
231 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
232 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
233 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
Uppland's Stånd-dragoons

Baltzar Friedrich's set from 1675

(originally intended for a Scanian regiment, carried 1714-17)

291 Colonel's colour (AM.067918)
234 Company colour 1 (AM.067996)
235 Company colour 2 (AM.067997)
236 Company colour 3 (AM.068042)
237 Company colour 4 (AM.010488)
238 Company colour 5 (AM.068118)

Set from 1717

254 Colonel's colour (AM.067999)
255 Company colour 1 (AM.067901)
256 Company colour 2 (AM.067916)
257 Company colour 3 (AM.010369)
258 Company colour 4 (AM.067982)
259 Company colour 5 (AM.067977)
260 Company colour 6 (AM.010368)
261 Company colour 7 (AM.067974)


Company colour kept in Russia

Skånska Stånd-dragoons
(Scanian Stånds-dragoons)

Wikman's set from 1714-16


239 Colonel's colour (AM.010489)
240 Company colour 1 (AM.068040)
241 Company colour 2 (AM.010487)
242 Company colour 3 (AM.010491)
243 Company colour 4 (AM.010490)
244 Company colour 5 (AM.068119)
245 Company colour 6 (AM.068121)
246 Company colour 7 (AM.067912)

247 Colour for the
Finnish Stånds-dragoons
Ingermanländska
(Ingrian)


Set from 1700?

---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Set from 1716-1718?

248 Colonel's colour (AM.068222)
249 Company colour 1 (AM.068122)
250 Company colour 2 (AM.067998)
251 Company colour 3 (AM.010350)
252 Company colour 4 (AM.010351)
253
Company colour 5 (AM.068041)


Company colour kept in Russia

Västgöta Stånd-dragoons

Olof Hoffmans set from 1704

262 Dalarna Company colour (AM.068132)
263
Småland Company colour (AM.068124)
Nils Gyllenstierna's Reg.
("Civilstatens and prästerskapets ryttare")


Elias Thede's set from 1676 (not issued)

264 Company colour 1 (AM.010366)
265 Company colour 2 (AM.068120)
Gotland Stånd-dragoons

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Colour (AM.067951)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
Blue colours with king Karl's royal cipher and palm leaves.

266 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
267 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
268 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)
Unknown Dragoon Unit
White colours with king Karl's royal cipher and a red-blue fringe.

269 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
270 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
Schwerin's Regiment

274 Company colour 1 (Copenhagen)
275 Company colour 2 (Copenhagen)
276 Company colour 3 (Copenhagen)
277 Company colour 4 (Copenhagen)
278 Company colour 5 (Copenhagen)

Livonian Land Dragoons

279 Colonel's colour (S:t Petersburg)
280 Company colour 1 (S:t Petersburg)
281 Company colour 2 (S:t Petersburg)
282 Company colour 3 (S:t Petersburg)


Two depictions of the colonel's colour
The company colour

Liv-dragoons


Colonel's colour from 1716

Johan Wikman's set from 1716

283 Colonel's colour (Livrustkammaren 31993)
284 Company colour 1 (AM.067913)
285 Company colour 2 (AM.068035)
286 Company colour 3 (AM.067902)
287 Company colour 4 (AM.068037)
288 Company colour 5 (AM.010370)
289 Company colour 6 (AM.010371)
290 Company colour 7 (AM.010372)

Tobias Leij the Elder's set from 1718

272 Company colour 1 (AM.010477)
273 Company colour 2 (AM.068213)

Pomeranian

---- Company colour (Copenhagen)

Estonian Lant Dragoons
Blue colour without decorations but with yellow fringes.

---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)
Unknown Dragoon Unit

---- Company colour (S:t Petersburg)

Bassewitz (or Bremen)

---- Company colour (Copenhagen)

Cederström notes in his page with corrections that some additional dragoon colours are located in Copenhagen (Töjhusmuseum). Specifically a chequered blue and yellow colour made by flag cloth from the end of the 17th century, a light blue colour made by damask from Karl XII's reign and two yellow colours made by wool from the beginning of the 18th century or the end of the 17th century.

Continue to the page with Guard and household troops' colours.

References

Cederström, Rudolf. Svenska kungliga hufvudbanér. Stockholm (1900)
Törnquist, Leif. Fanor och standar vid de tillfälliga regementena [...] 1700-1721 (SVSS-NS XXXV). Stockholm (2020)
Törnquist, Leif. Fanor och standar vid värvade förband 1686-1815 (SVSS-NS XXXVII). Stockholm (2022)
Törnquist, Leif. Kavalleriets standar och dragonfanor m/1686 (SVSS-NS XXXII). Stockholm (2017)