Platine cosmetics

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The cosmetic stuff is not quite on the table yet and should come last, but I'm taking notes in the meantime:

Colours

• I want to preserve the dark tone of ARC in its 'successor' tag + government combinations, which could include:
  • monarchy ARG or LPL, especially if absolute
  • fascist ARG or LPL (should turn even darker)
• likewise darker variants for presidential dictatorship ENT and CRT so that Argentina turns dark as Rosismo spreads
• other Platine tags which can turn into dictatorships for reasons other than the rule of Rosas should probably not have darker variants (likely URU, PRG, SBA)

Flags

• a resource for historical ARC, ARG, and LPL flags: http://www.vexilla-mundi.com/argentina_history.html

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Wikipedia quotes the following from John Lynch's Argentine Dictator:

The red colour—symbol of both the Federalist Party and of Rosismo—became omnipresent in the province of Buenos Aires. Soldiers wore red chiripás (blankets worn as trousers), caps and jackets, and their horses sported red accoutrements.

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From the Spanish Wikipedia article on the Liberal Party of Corrientes:

The symbols that identify both parties are red for autonomists and light blue for liberals.

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According to Wikipedia the particular shade of red under Rosas was coquelicot (French ponceau, thence Spanish punzó). French Wikipedia has a shade as described by a contemporary 19th century chemist namely #EC044C.

edit: the particular shade was for the political insignia

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Pictures of the poppy-coloured badge are easy to find.