Olof Hoffman's model drawings from volume 1 and 2.

Before any colours or standards were manufactured, a model drawing had to be made and then approved by the War College which the manufacturer had to follow. In the Swedish War Archive there are over 200 preserved model drawings and I have taken photos of all of them and made them available on this page. In order to ease identification I have kept the War Archive's numbering of the drawings and their grouping in volumes.

Volume 1

The War Archive's collection of model drawings begins with drawings on this page (volume 1). Except for the first four drawings all of these are made in accordance to the regulation of 1686 (m/1686) which more or less would remain in use until it was replaced by m/1766. Olof Hoffman who was assigned to illustrate m/1686 made no less than three sets of drawings. This is the reason to why there are so many doubles of the cavalry standards (note however that the doubles are not completely identical, the appearance of the borders and the size of the royal cypher are different).

001 Marine Regiment 1676	002 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Colonel's standard 1683	003 Västgöta-Dal Regiment Colonel's colour 1685?	004 Västgöta-Dal Regiment Company colour 1685?
Colours and Standards According to the Regulation of 1686
005 Adelsfanan in Sweden, Finland and Scania  Colonel's standard.	006 Adelsfanan in Sweden, Finland and Scania Colonel's standard	007 Adelsfanan in Sweden, Finland and Scania Company standard	008 Adelsfanan in Sweden, Finland and Scania Company standard
009 Adelsfanan in Estonia, Livonia and Ingria Colonel's standard	010 Adelsfanan in Estonia, Livonia and Ingria Company standard	011 Drottningens livregemente  till häst Colonel's standard	012 Drottningens livregemente till häst Company standard
013 Jämtland Cavalry Company Company standard, obverse	014 Jämtland Cavalry Company Company standard, reverse	015 Livregementet till häst Colonel's standard	016 Livregementet till häst Närke company standard
017 Livregementet till häst Närke company standard	018 Livregementet till häst Södermanland company standard	019 Livregementet till häst Södermanland company standard	020 Livregementet till häst Uppland company standard
021 Livregementet till häst Västgöta company standard	022 Livregementet till häst Västmanland company standard	023 Livregementet till häst Västmanland company standard	024 Norra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard
025 Norra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	026 Norra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	027 Nylands och Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	028 Nylands och Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard
029 Nylands och Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	030 Nylands och Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	031 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Colonel's standard	032 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Colonel's standard
033 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Company standard, obverse	034 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Company standard, reverse	035 Riksänkedrottningens livregemente till häst Company standard, reverse	036 Småland Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard
037 Småland Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	038 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	039 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	040 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
041 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	042 Södra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	043 Södra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	044 Södra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse
045 Carelia's and Viborg's Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	046 Carelia's and Viborg's Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	047 Carelia's and Viborg's Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	048 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard
049 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	050 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	051 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	052 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
053 Åbo and Björneborg Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard	054 Åbo and Björneborg Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	055 Åbo and Björneborg Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	056 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment Colonel's standard
057 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	058 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	059 Bohuslän Dragoon Squadron Colonel's colour	060 Bohuslän Dragoon Squadron Company colour, reverse
061 Bohuslän Dragoon Squadron Company colour, obverse	062 Carelian Land-Dragoon Squadron Company colour, reverse	063 Carelian Land-Dragoon Squadron Company standard, obverse	064 Carelian Land-Dragoon Squadron Colonel's colour
065 Dragoons, Colonel's colour	066 Dragoons, Colonel's colour	067 Dragoons, Company colour	068 Dragoons, Company colour
069 Björneborgs Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	070 Björneborgs Infantry Regiment Company colour	071 Dal-regiment Colonel's colour	072 Dal-regiment Company colour

Volume 2

The second volume mostly contains model drawings of infantry colours in accordance to the regulation of 1686. Although the first four of these are actually part of volume 1.Note that "Drottningens livregemente till fot" (just like many cavalry regiments in the preceding volume) has duplicates. This is because Olof Hoffman originally made three sets of m/1686 model drawings.

Located at the end of this volume, there are three additional model drawings which are not part of the official m/1686 suite. The last of them depicts the colour of Lewenhaupt's regiment which was raised for the Swedish auxiliary corps which fought in the War of the League of Augsburg (1688-1697). That colour would become the prototype for the colours that were issued to enlisted regiments in the Great Northern War.

073 Drottningens livregemente till fot Colonel's colour	074 Drottningens livregemente till fot Colonel's colour	075 Drottningens livregemente till fot Company colour	076 Drottningens livregemente till fot Company colour
077 Hälsinge Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	078 Hälsinge Infantry Regiment Company colour	079 Jönköping Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	080 Jönköping Infantry Regiment Company colour
081 Jämtland Dragoon Regiment Colonel's colour	082 Jämtland Dragoon Regiment Company colour	083 Kalmar län Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	084 Kalmar län Infantry Regiment Company colour
085 Kronoberg Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	086 Kronoberg Infantry Regiment Company colour	087 Livgardet Company colour	088 Nyland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
089 Nyland Infantry Regiment Company colour	090 Närke-Värmland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	091 Närke-Värmland Infantry Regiment Company colour	092 Prince Carl's Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
093 Prince Carls' Infantry Regiment Company colour	094 Savolax Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	095 Savolax Infantry Regiment Company colour	096 Skaraborg Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
097 Skaraborg Infantry Regiment Company colour	098 Södermanland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	099 Södermanland Infantry Regiment Company colour	100 Tavastehus Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
101 Tavastehus Infantry Regiment Company colour	102 Tyska livregementet Colonel's colour	103 Tyska livregementet Company colour	104 Uppland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
105 Uppland Infantry Regiment Company colour	106 Västerbotten Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	107 Västerbotten Infantry Regiment Company colour	108 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour
109 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment Company colour	110 Västmanland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	111 Västmanland Infantry Regiment Company colour	112 Västmanland Infantry Regiment Company colour
113 Åbo län Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	114 Åbo län Infantry Regiment Company colour	115 Älvsborg Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	116 Älvsborg Infantry Regiment Company colour
117 Österbotten Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	118 Österbotten Infantry Regiment Company colour	119 Östergötland Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	120 Östergötland Infantry Regiment Company colour
121 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment Company colour	122 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment Company colour	123 Lewenhaupt's Infantry Regiment 1688 Company colour

Volume 3

This volume contains model drawings of full colours as well as details and fabric samples for those colours that were made in the period between the two major reforms of 1686 and 1766. New regiments which were not covered by the 1686 regulation were raised during this period and towards the end of it attempts were made to find a new design to replace m/1686. Because of a new method of manufacturing the colours the motif in the m/1686 had shrunk already in the 1730s, which the model drawings of Hälsinge Regiment from 1758 is a good example of (numbers 163-164). In 1761 the laurel wreath was replaced with a golden frame of shells with a crown on top. After complaints the shells were replaced with stylised golden palm leafs, thus creating the m/1766 which would remain in use until 1819.

124 National Coat of Arms 1695	125 Standard border	126 Västra Skånska Conscripted Regiment? Colonel's colour	127 Västra Skånska Conscripted Regiment? Company colour
128 Östra Skånska Conscripted Regiment? Company colour	129 Östra Skånska Conscripted Regiment? Company colour	130 Uppland 3-männing Cavalry Regiment 1700 Colonel's standard	131 Uppland 3-männing Cavalry Regiment 1700 Östgöta Company standard
132 Savolax Infantry Regiment 1720 Colonel's colour	133 Savolax Infantry Regiment 1720 Company colour	134 Nyland and Tavastehus Dragoon Regiment 1721 Company colour, obverse	135 Nyland and Tavastehus Dragoon Regiment 1721 Company colour, reverse
136 Nyland and Tavastehus Dragoon Regiment 1721 Colonel's colour	137 Björneborg Regimente 1724 Company colour	138 Ribbing's Regiment 1725 Fabric sampleer	139 Åbo läns Infantry Regiment 1725 Company colour
140 Gothenburg Garrison Regiment 1725 Colonel's colour	141 Älvsborg Infantry Regiment Company colour (two drawings, the upper drawing is meant to be put under the lower drawing, which has a hole in the middle)	142 Uppland Infantry Regiment 1726 Fabric sample	143 Dal-regiment 1727 Fabric sample
144 Kymmenegård Battalion Colonel's colour	145 Kymmenegård Battalion Company colour	146 Coat of arms of Carelia (cut out of a model drawing from the later Carolean age)	147 Vasa city 1729
148 Uleåborg city	149 Stralsund (Schwerin's) Garrison Regiment 1739 Company colour	150 Brahestad Burgher Militia 1741	151 Hamilton's enlisted regiment 1741 Company colour
152 National coat of arms Fredrik I's reign (1720-1751)	153 Crown Prince's Regiment 1747 Company colour	154 Stralsund (Spens') Garrison Regiment 1749 Company colour	155 Tavastehus Infantry Regiment 1749 Company colour
156 Cronhielm's Regiment 1755 Colonel's colour	157 Cronhielm's Regiment Company colour	158 Gothenburg (Hessenstein's) Garrison Regiment 1755 Colonel's colour	159 Gothenburg (Hessenstein's) Garrison Regiment Company colour
160 Jönköping Infantry Regiment Colonel's colour	161 Jönköpings Infantry Regiment 1756 Company colour	162 Spens' Regiment 1756 Company colour	163 Hälsinge Infantry Regiment 1758 Colonel's colour
164 Hälsinge Infantry Regiment 1758 Company colour	165 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment 1752 Tom drum colour	166 Lilliesvärd's Regiment Colonel's colour	167 Lilliesvärd's Regiment 1759 Company colour
168 Västerbotten Infantry Regiment 1759 Colonel's colour	169 Västerbottens Infantry Regiment 1760 Company colour	170 Adolf Fredrik's royal cypher	171 Skaraborg Regiment Company colour 1761 (Colonel's colour on a page underneath)
172 Björnberg's Enlisted Regiment Company colour	173 Löwenfels' Regiment 1762 Colonel's colour	174 Löwenfels' Regiment Company colour	175 Dal-regiment 1764 Company colour
176 Kalmar län  Infantry Regiment 1764 Company colour	177 Närke-Värmland Infantry Regiment 1764 Company colour	178 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment 1764 Company colour	179 Livgardet (Guard) Company colour
180 Livregementet till häst Närke Company standard	181 Livregementet till häst Närke Company standard	182 Livregementet till häst Södermanland Company standard	183 Livregementet till häst Södermanland Company standard
184 Livregementet till häst Uppland Company standard	185 Livregementet till häst Uppland Company standard	186 Livregementet till häst Uppland Company standard	187 Livregementet till häst Västgöta Company standard
188 Livregementet till häst Västgöta Company standard	189 Livregementet till häst Västmanland Company standard	190 Livregementet till häst Västmanland Company standard	191 Närke-Värmland Infantry Regiment 1766 Company colour
192 Kronoberg Infantry Regiment 1767 Company colour	193 Crown Prince's Regiment Company colour	194 Sprengporten's Regiment Company colour	195 Savolax Infantry Regiment Fabric samples

Volume 4

When m/1686 had finally been replaced by m/1766 the War College commissioned in 1768 a new set of model drawings from Jacob Gillberg. The result came the following year in the form of a book, from which the pictures below are taken. However, several of these drawings appear if you take a closer look to be very odd. There was no Gästrikland company in Livregementet so this provincial coat of arms would not be part of any standard. The Life Dragoon Regiment, which had replaced the old Åbo & Björneborg Cavalry Regiment, is not depicted with white colours as is custom for household regiments. Instead they are incorrectly portrayed with red dragoon colours based on the old cavalry regiment's standards. Jacob Gillberg have also missed that Nyland & Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment had been converted to dragoons already in 1721 (see correct model drawings for them in volume 3, no 134-136). Bohuslän Dragoon Regiment has curiously enough got a cavalry standard with the provincial coat of arms of Halland.

Content	196 Kettledrum colour	197 Colonel's standard	198 Livregementet till häst Gästrikland Company standard
199 Livregementet till häst Uppland Company standard	200 Adelsfanan Company standard	201 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	202 Västgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
203 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	204 Småland Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	205 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	206 Östgöta Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
207 Norra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	208 Norra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse	209 Södra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	210 Södra Skånska Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
			Image Missing (page missing in the book)
211 Åbo län Life Dragoons Company colour, obverse	212 Åbo län Life Dragoons Company colour, reverse	213 Nyland and Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Company standard, obverse	214 Nyland and Tavastehus Cavalry Regiment Company standard, reverse
215 Bohuslän Dragoon Regiment Company standard, obverse	216 Bohuslän Dragoon Regiment Company colour, reverse	217 Jämtland Cavalry Company Company standard, obverse	218 Jämtland Cavalry Company Company colour, reverse
219 Colonel's colour	220 Uppland Infantry Regiment Company colour	221 Skaraborg Infantry Regiment Company colour	222 Åbo län Infantry Regiment Company colour
223 Södermanland Infantry Regiment Company colour	224 Kronoberg Infantry Regiment Company colour	225 Jönköping Infantry Regiment Company colour	226 Björneborg Infantry Regiment Company colour
227 Dal-regiment Company colour	228 Östergötland Infantry Regiment Company colour	229 Tavastehus Infantry Regiment Company colour	230 Hälsinge Infantry Regiment Company colour
231 Älvsborg Infantry Regiment Company colour	232 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment Company colour	233 Savolax Infantry Regiment Company colour	234 Västmanland Infantry Regiment Company colour
235 Västerbotten Infantry Regiment Company colour	236 Kalmar län Infantry Regiment Company colour	237 Nyland Infantry Regiment Company colour	238 Närke-Värmland Infantry Regiment Company colour
239 Österbotten Infantry Regiment Company colour	240 Jämtland Dragoon Regiment Company colour

Volume 5

M/1766 would remain in use until 1819 when colours with the provincial coat of arms were replaced with identical colours featuring the Swedish national flag. But even before that there had been experiments testing new designs and in 1849 the provincial coat of arms returned as symbols on the regimental colours.

241 Gothenburg (Gyllengranat's) Garrison Regiment Company colour	242 Prince Friedrich Adolph's Regiment Company colour	243 Livgardet (the Guard) Company colour	244 The King's own Enlisted Regiment Company colour
245 Småland Cavalry Regiment Detail of the coat of arms	246 Gustav III's royal cypher	247 Drottningens livregemente	248 Drottningens livregemente 1780
249 Drottningens livregemente	250 The hart shield of the Swedish coat of arms 1799	251 Västgöta-Dal Infantry Regiment 1803 Company colour	252 Adlercreutz' Regiment 1805
253 Bohuslän Infantry Regiment 1806 Company colour	254 Fleetwood's Regiment Company colour	255 Af Palén's Regiment Company colour	256 Skånska roteringsregementena Company colour
257 Västgöta Infantry Regiment Company colour	258 Swedish coat of arms 1816	259 Colonel's colour for provincial infantry regiments 1819	260 Battalion colour for provincial infantry regiments 1819
261 Västgöta Infantry Regiment Battalion colour	262 Karl XIV Johan's Royal cypher in a shield	263 Command signs for the Navy 1844	264 Oscar I's royal cypher 1844
265 Oscar I's royal cypher 1844	266 Småland Grenadier Battalion 1849 Battalion colour	267 Södermanland Infantry Regiment 1849 Battalion colour	268 Värmland Infantry Regiment1849 Battalion colour
269 Kronoberg Infantry Regiment 1886 Battalion colour	270 Västerbotten Infantry Regiment 1901 Battalion colour