File talk:Coat of arms of Burkina Faso 1984-1991.svg

Time in use

Burkina Faso introduced this coat of arms after the Sankarist revolution in 1984. It remained in service until 1997 (2nd revision of the Burkina Faso constitution of the IV republic). --Sputniktilt 21:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Note on sources

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Sources were the existing pixel-coat of arms as shown on the left, an official letterhead from Burkina Faso authorities (1990) and a fiscal stamp from 1993 in my passport (the new constitution was adopted in 1991, but the "revolutionary" coat of arms remained in use until 1997). Note: The en:AK-47 in the original version was drawn correctly, not as shown on the image mentionned above. On that reproduction, the proportions of the AK-47 are clearly false, also in the reproduction of the Meyers Lexikon. In the present artwork, the size and proportions of the AK-47 and the mattock are conform to the official documents and to the arm and the tool itself. A note about the colors: In official documents, the banner on the bottom was often white, while the AK-47 has been also drawn in black or dark grey. For the use on the web, I decided to choose colors which gives good results also if shown downsized. --Sputniktilt 21:58, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Text in book

That's cute. I'm guessing that it's OK because the text in the book in the original coat of arms was deliberately illegible? Lollipop (留言) 22:53, 30 November 2016 (UTC)