Outside of Tibet, the flag was featured in publications by foreign governments, reference books, academic journals, and in culturally significant works up until 1959. One of its first official international appearances was in a British Crown publication in 1923, ""Drawings of the Flags in Use at the Present Time by Various Nations"".It was also included in the German Ministry of Defense's Naval Command, ""Flaggenbuch,"" in 1926and in the Italian Naval Ministry's ""Raccolta delle Bandiere Fiamme e Insegne in uso presso le Diverse Nazioni"" in 1934.National Geographic Magazine featured the flag in their 1934 “"Flags of the World"” edition. The caption reads, "Tibet.- With its towering mountain of snow, before which stand two lions fighting for a flaming gem, the flag of Tibet is one of the most distinctive of the East." Beginning in 1928, images of the flag were also widely published by companies in Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, and Oceania in national flag collections on various forms of trading cards.