A different postcard of a similar flag was published by Spiridon Ilo in 1920. In a correspondence by Kristo Floqi written to the editor of Drita Newspaper, dated January 17, 1937 and titled "The designer of the flag that was flown in Vlorë for the declaration of our independence", in response to Kol Rodhe, the flag is described as ""a thin red woven cloth, 3 meters long and 2 meters wide and on which a black double-headed vulture was branded"". Floqi may have had such knowledge of the flag as his brother Thanas was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and Floqi himself was married to Urani Poçi, the sister of Marigo Posio.