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13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN UNUSUAL, ELONGATED FORM OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION AND ENDEARING WEAR FROM LONG-TERM USE, MADE IN THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
QUEEN ANNE PERIOD BLANKET CHEST, CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY, PROBABLY MASSACHUSETTS, WITH BLACK DECORATION ON A RED GROUND, THAT INCLUDES TWO WHIMSICAL FACES, ca 1740-1760
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG IN THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, ONE OF JUST THREE EXAMPLES THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THAT PRE-DATE THE 1890’s; AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND, CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-1865) OR JUST AFTER, EXTREMELY LARGE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS OF ALL PERIODS IN THIS DESIGN
FULL, WRAP-AROUND, SILK SUFFRAGETTE SASH IN GREEN, WHITE, & VIOLET, WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, DESIGNED BY SYLVIA PANKHURST FOR THE WOMEN’S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION (U.K.), LIKELY PRODUCED BY TOYE &. COMPANY OF BIRMINGHAM, circa 1908 AND LIKELY SOLD BY AN AMERICAN-OWNED DEPARTMENT STORE IN THAT SAME CITY, GIFTED TO A BIRMINGHAM ACTIVIST & EDUCATOR
IMPORTANT FLAG OF THE PENNSYLVANIA NATIONAL GUARD HEADQUARTERS
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
AMAZINGLY GRAPHIC ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 37 SIX-POINTED STARS, IN 3 DIFFERENT SIZES, IN A SPECTACULAR DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION, INSCRIBED WITH THE INTIALS "A.P." AND THE NAME "PURSEL." NEBRASKA STATEHOOD, 1867-1876; A MASTERPIECE AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES
MASTERPIECE TRAMP ART CARVING: "THE GRADUATE," circa 1870-1890
CONFEDERATE PARADE FLAG IN THE SOUTHERN CROSS / BATTLE FLAG FORMAT, REUNION ERA, circa 1910-1930
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890
43 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IDAHO IN 1890, ACCURATE FOR JUST 7 DAYS
MEXICAN NATIONAL FLAG IN THE DESIGN USED BY REVOLUTIONARIES FROM 1917 - 1934, THE FIRST PERIOD IN WHICH THE EAGLE WAS ILLUSTRATED IN SIDE VIEW; MADE OF GABARDINE WOOL AND WOOL BUNTING, WITH RICH COLORS AND A HAND-PAINTED DEVICE, USED IN THE LATTER YEARS OF THE ERA OF PONCHO VILLA (b. 1878, d. 1923)
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS PENNANT OF NOTABLE WEIGHT, QUALITY, & SCALE, circa 1914-1920’s
38 STAR AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL VARIATION OF THE “GREAT STAR” OR “GREAT FLOWER” PATTERN, 4 LARGE CORNER STARS, & AN ODD OUTLIER, 1876-1889, COLORADO STATEHOOD, EXTRAORDINARILY RARE
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG IN A TINY SCALE AMONG THOSE WITH PIECED-AND-SEWN CONSTRUCTION, WITH A BEAUTIFUL & UNUSUAL SHADE OF BLUE AND WITH A NOTCHED CONFIGURATION OF STARS THAT LEAVES ROOM FOR WESTERN TERRITORIES THAT HAD YET TO BE ADDED; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
CARVED EAGLE ON A CIRCULAR PLAQUE, IN A VOLUPTOUOUS AND WHIMSICAL STYLE, WITH WINGS REMINISCNET OF THOSE ON TOMBSTONE ANGELS, 3rd QUARTER 19th CENTURY
ROBUST ORNAMENTAL CARVING OF A PRIZED RAM BY WEATHERVANE CARVER HENRY LEACH (1811-1885) OF MASSACHUSETTS, SIGNED & DATED 1876
44 STARS IN ZIGZAGGING ROWS ON A PRESS-DYED WOOL AMERICAN FLAG MADE BY THE HORSTMANN COMPANY IN PHILADELPHIA, POSSIBLY FOR USE AS A MILITARY CAMP COLORS, 1890-1896, REFLECTS WYOMING STATEHOOD
38 HAND-SEWN STARS IN A "NOTCHED" PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH BEAUTIFUL WEAR FROM HAVING BEEN EXTENSIVELY FLOWN, MADE AT THE TIME WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
32 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF A TYPE KNOWN TO HAVE LIKELY SEEN MILITARY USE, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF MINNESOTA TO THE UNION IN 1858, AN EXTREMELY RARE FLAG, ACCURATE FOR JUST 9 MONTHS AND OFFICIAL FOR ONLY ONE YEAR
CIVIL WAR PERIOD APRON, MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, OHIO IN 1861 BY 12-YEAR-OLD LAURA HAYNES, WORN BY HER AT BENEFITS FOR THE U.S. SANITARY COMMISSION, PREDECESSOR OF THE RED CROSS, THAT STAFFED, FUNDED, AND MODERNIZED CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS
MONUMENTAL, HAND-PAINTED & BLOCK-PRINTED BANNER, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA, WITH A SPREAD-WINGED EAGLE, CROSSED FLAGS, AND THE NAMES OF 37 STATES; EXTREMELY RARE; ARGUABLY THE MOST ELABORATE OF ALL KNOWN TEXTILES PRODUCED FOR THE EVENT
30 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, PROBABLY MADE AT THE TIME OF OUR NATION’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE, TO COMMEMORATE WISCONSIN STATEHOOD IN 1848, LIKELY FOR USE AT THE CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
46 STAR U.S. MILITARY CAMP COLORS, PRESS-DYED ON WOOL BUNTING, MADE BY HORSTMANN, PHILADELPHIA, SIGNED AND DATED 1909, ON ITS REMARKABLE, ORIGINAL STAFF; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
WEST POINT PENNANT WITH STRIKING COLOR & GRAPHICS, WWII ERA - 1950's
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH 30 STARS, THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE IN THIS SIMPLE BUT EXTRAORDINARY STYLE, PRE-CIVIL WAR, OFFICIAL FOR JUST TWO YEARS, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WISCONSIN AS THE 30th STATE, 1848-1850; ILLUSTRATED IN “THE STARS & THE STRIPES, FABRIC OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT” BY J. RICHARD PIERCE
8-FOOT COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 13 STARS, MADE circa 1892-1910
EXCEPTIONAL 1821 PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON CLOTH, IN MULBERRY RED ON A SULFER YELLOW GROUND, PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY ROBERT & COLLIN GILLESPIE FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET, AN UNUSUALLY LARGE EXAMPLE AMONG KNOWN VERSIONS OF THIS TEXTILE, IN EXTRAORDINARY CONDITION; EXHIBITED JANUARY – AUGUST, 2023 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
“TEXAS LOVES REAGAN & BUSH”: AN EXTRAORDINARILY RARE PARADE FLAG, MADE FOR EITHER THE SUCCESSFUL 1980 OR 1984 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF RONALD REAGAN & GEORGE BUSH, WITH PATRIOTIC LETTERING
AMERICAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT PENNANT WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, IN A LARGE SIZE AND WITH ATTRACTIVE PATINA FROM AGE AND OBVIOUS USE, circa 1912-1920
7 STARS WITH WHIMSICAL PROFILES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE TO REFLECT THE INITIAL WAVE OF 7 STATES SECEDED FROM THE UNION, A CIVIL WAR PERIOD EXAMPLE, THE LARGEST OF SEVERAL KNOWN VARIETIES, MADE circa 1861
30 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR, WISCONSIN STATEHOOD, 1848-1850
ONE OF A TINY GROUP OF SURVIVING ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAGS THAT INCLUDES A RATTLESNAKE, IN A VARIANT OF CLOSELY RELATED DESIGNS FLOWN BY THE COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS NAVY (1775-1776) & POSSIBLY BY THE PENNSYLVANIA NAVY ON THE DELAWARE RIVER (1775 – 1778), ALL WITH A GREEN PINE TREE AS THE CENTRAL DEVICE ON A WHITE FIELD; THIS EXAMPLE MADE circa 1910-1926, WITH A RATTLESNAKE COILED ABOUT ITS BASE AND TWO SLOGANS: “AN APPEAL TO GOD” & “DON’T TREAD ON ME”
13 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG MADE BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1910 AND THE 1926 SESQUICENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
44 STARS CONFIGURED INTO THE LETTERS “U.S.”, PATENTED IN 1890 BY W.R. WASHBURN, ONE OF ONLY FOUR KNOWN SURVIVING EXAMPLES & ONE OF THE VERY BEST DESIGNS KNOWN TO EXIST ACROSS EARLY AMERICAN FLAGS OF ALL PERIODS; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
CARVING OF SIAMESE TWIN MERMAIDS, ATTRIBUTED TO THE "CAPE CARVER" WHO WORKED NEAR SANDWICH, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN EXTREMELY NARROW PRESENTATION OF A 3-2-3-2-3 ARRANGEMENT ON A CANTON THAT DOESN’T FOLLOW SUIT, LEAVING WIDE EXPANSES OF BLUE WOOL BUNTING ABOVE AND BELOW; MADE IN THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, POSSIBLY AS A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE FOR THE 1868 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF ULYSSES S. GRANT & SCHUYLER COLFAX
45 STARS IN STAGGERED ROWS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG OF THE 1896-1908 PERIOD, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA; REFLECTS UTAH STATEHOOD
WILLIAM McKINLEY PARADE SASH WITH “SOUND MONEY” SLOGAN, MADE TO PROMOTE HIS GOLD STANDARD PLATFORM FOR MONETARIZATION OF THE U.S. DOLLAR DURING THE 1896 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
IMPORTANT ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAIT FLAG WITH 13 STARS AND "WIDE AWAKE" SLOGAN, FROM THE 1860 CAMPAIGN WITH VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HANNIBAL HAMLIN, AKIN TO A FLAG IN THE COLLECTION AT FORD'S THEATER; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
BRITTISH SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT CIGARETTE CASE AND ‘CINDERELLA’ STAMP WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN” SLOGAN
THE ROYAL FLAG OF SCOTLAND, a.k.a., “LION RAMPANT,” A GLAZED COTTON PARADE FLAG, LAST QUARTER 19th CENTURY
46 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY SMALL AND EXTREMELY RARE SCALE AMONG ITS PIECED-AND-SEWN COUNTERPARTS, REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN OKLAHOMA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1907-1912
EXCEPTIONAL 1821 PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON CLOTH, IN MULBERRY RED, PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY ROBERT & COLLIN GILLESPIE FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET; ONE OF THE VERY FIRST DECORATIVE RENDERINGS OF THE DOCUMENT IN ANY FORM, AND PERHAPS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAMPAIGN PARADE FLAG WITH 33 STARS IN A PENTAGON MEDALLION AND AN INTRIGUING ABBREVIATION OF HIS NAME, ATTRIBUTED TO H.C. HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA
BOLDLY GRAPHIC AND UNUSUAL STARS & STRIPES PENNANT FROM THE ‘MARCH ON WASHINGTON’ OF AUGUST 28TH, 1963, WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING DELIVERED HIS HISTORIC "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH; THIS EXAMPLE EXHIBITED AT THE REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM OF MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY:
PRINTED COTTON KERCHIEF GLORIFYING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WITH TEXT AND REPRODUCED SIGNATURES, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA
PRE-1875 PENNSYLVANIA STATE STANDARD, HAND-PAINTED CREST ON SILK, BULLION FRINGE
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN OVAL VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN AND A UNIQUE, STENCILED MAKER’S MARK OF SHIP'S CHANDLER H. CHANNON, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, circa 1885-1895
HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A TINY CANTON RESTING ON THE 6TH STRIPE AND AN EXTREMELY FOLKY PRESENTATION OF 45 STARS IN A “NOTCHED” PATTERN THAT MIGHT BE UNIQUE TO THIS EXAMPLE; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN UTAH WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1896-1908
HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, SILK, PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FLAG, MADE FOR WHIG PARTY CANDIDATE HENRY CLAY, LIKELY IN 1844, WITH HIS APPLIQUED PORTRAIT IN THE CANTON, TAKEN FROM AN 1832 SILK CAMPAIGN RIBBON, WITH A STRIPED FIELD THAT BEGINS & ENDS ON WHITE, AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE
31 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A RARE VARIATION OF THE “GREAT STAR” PATTERN AND "FLORIDA" PAINTED IN THE STRIPED FIELD, PART OF A GROUP OF EXAMPLES REPRESENTING BOTH STATES & TERRITORIES, MADE TO MARK THE SEATS WHERE THE RESPECTIVE DELEGATES SAT AT THE 1860 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL “WIGWAM” CONVENTION IN CHICAGO, WHERE LINCOLN WAS SELECTED FROM THE 3RD BALLOT TO BECOME THE REPUBLICAN PARTY’S FIRST EVER SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE; FOUND IN MIDDLETOWN, NY AMONG THE EFFECTS OF WHIG
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A SINGLE WREATH OF STARS REMINISCENT OF THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, BUT RENDERED AS MORE OF AN OVAL, THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THIS EXACT VARIETY THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED, MADE circa 1890-WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18)
PATRIOTIC WEST POINT WINDOW BANNER, PROBABLY MADE AROUND THE TIME OF U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WWI (1917-18), A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE WITH THE ACADEMY CREST & A SALMON RED BINDING
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE IN THE 1895-1926 ERA, MARKED “R.H. MACY & CO.”
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE IN THE 1895-1926 ERA, MARKED “R.H. MACY & CO.”
TURKEY RED BANDANNA, MADE FOR THE 1912 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, WHEN HE RAN ON THE INDEPENDENT, PROGRESSIVE PARTY (BULL MOOSE) TICKET
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF HAND-SEWN STARS AND A BEAUTIFUL, ELONGATED PROFILE, MADE IN THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, IN AN UNCOMMONLY SMALL SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS OF THE PERIOD WITH SEWN CONSTRUCTION
ONE OF THE TWO EARLIEST KNOWN FLAGS IN THE DESIGN PRESENTED BY CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN OF SOUTH CAROLINA, FORMER MEMBER OF THE SONS OF LIBERTY, DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, AND CHAIR OF THE MARINE COMMITTEE, SUGGESTING IT BECOME THE “STANDARD OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL U.S. NAVY,” BETTER KNOWN AS THE "GADSDEN FLAG;" PRINTED ON GLAZED, SAFFRON YELLOW COTTON, ATTRIBUTED TO PRINTER JOHN M. EASTERBY OF NEW YORK AND SOUTH CAROLINA, circa 1860 (POSSIBLY PRIOR)
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE circa 1895-1926
ODD FELLOWS SNAKE STAFF WITH APPLE FINIAL, CA 1870-80
LARGE, SQUARE, TAPERED, BLACK & WHITE BARBER POLE WITH A VOLUPTUOUS, GILDED, ACORN FINIAL, AMERICAN, CIRCA 1885-1900
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN HOURGLASS FORMATION OF STARS IN CANTED ROWS, AND AN EXTREMELY INTERESTING PRESENTATION FROM REPEATING SWATHS OF HEAVY OXIDATION, WYOMING STATEHOOD, 1890-1896
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE circa 1895-1926
AMERICAN FLAG, 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN FROM A WWII SUBMARINE, WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM LONG-TERM USE; THE FLAG MADE IN JANUARY, 1944 AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA; BROUGHT HOME BY GUNNER’S MATE 2ND CLASS, JAY J. BURKINS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
16 STAR “DISUNION” FLAG, WITH 13 STARS ON THE OBVERSE, MADE TO CONVEY AN ABOLITIONIST MESSAGE IN THE 8-YEAR TIME FRAME FOLLOWING THE ADDITION OF CALIFORNIA AS THE 31ST STATE, WHEN THERE WERE 16 FREE & 15 SLAVE STATES, REMOVING THE LATTER FROM THEIR TOTAL; THE COUNT OF 7 STRIPES REMOVES THE 6 SLAVE STATES FROM THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES; LIKELY PRODUCED IN SUPPORT OF THE 1856 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF THE FIRST REPUBLICAN NOMINEE JOHN FRÉMONT, WHO RAN ON AN ANTI-SLAVERY PLATFORM
ICONIC PAINTING OF AN AMERICAN EAGLE BEFORE A CIVIL WAR NAVAL SCENE, WITH A GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC BADGE IN ITS BEAK, AN AMERICAN FLAG, AND A FEDERAL SHIELD, circa 1872-1890
EXCEPTIONAL, PAINT-DECORATED ODD FELLOWS HEART-IN-HAND STAFF, WITH GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, circa 1875
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-1865), WITH 9 STRIPES TO REFLECT THE OMISSION OF NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, & VIRGINIA, THE 4 SLAVE STATES AMONG THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES THAT SECEDED FROM THE UNION, WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE, STRIKING COLOR, AND A BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION CONFIGURATION
1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN CAMPAIGN PARADE FLAG WITH 33 STARS IN A PENTAGON MEDALLION AND AN INTRIGUING ABBREVIATION OF HIS NAME, ATTRIBUTED TO H.C. HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA
SUBSTANTIAL CANNON-LEG TABLE [ALTER] FROM THE GREGG POST OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC (G.A.R.) IN BELLFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA, MADE BY CHARLES J. NAYLOR OF PHILDELPHIA, ACTIVE 1870-1913
SILK SUFFRAGETTE SASH RIBBON IN YELLOW & WHITE WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, circa 1910-1915
RARE & UNUSUAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE PIN CUSHION, IN AN ENDEARING, DOLL-LIKE FORM, MADE OF HAND-PAINTED VELVETEEN, ENGLISH, circa 1880-1910
48 STARS CANTED TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT IN DANCING ROWS, A RARE VARIETY OF ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG IN A LARGE SCALE, 1912-1918 OR PERHAPS EARLIER, REFLECTS ARIZONA & NEW MEXICO STATEHOOD
48 STAR FLAG WITH STARS CANTED TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT IN DANCING ROWS, A RARE VARIETY OF ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG IN A LARGE SCALE, 1912-1918 OR PERHAPS EARLIER, REFLECTS ARIZONA & NEW MEXICO STATEHOOD
PATRIOTIC SILK KERCHIEF OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WITH AN ENGRAVED IMAGE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, CROSSED 34 STAR FLAGS, AN EAGLE, AND "UNION FOREVER" SLOGAN
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG w/ A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN OF ESPECIALLY LARGE STARS; A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, SIGNED & DATED 1903, MADE AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD IN NEW YORK CITY
VERDIGRIS GREEN DROPLEAF FARM TABLE ON COUNTRY SHERATON LEGS, MID-19TH CENTURY, AMERICAN
DIMINUTIVE PAINTING OF PHEASANT, OIL ON WOODEN PANEL, ENGLISH, circa 1860-80
13 STARS WITH SHORT, CONICAL ARMS ON A SMALL SCALE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE DURING THE LAST DECADE F THE 19TH CENTURY; POSSIBLY OF PHILADELPHIA ORIGIN; FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF BOLESLAW & MARIE D'OTRANGE MASTAI, THE FIRST MAJOR COLLECTORS TO PUBLISH A PICTORIAL REFERENCE (KNOPF, NEW YORK, 1973):
30 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL, WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A HALOED CENTER STAR, WISCONSIN STATEHOOD, 1848-1850
48 STAR U.S. NAVY JACK, MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, DURING WWII, DATED 1944
48 STAR U.S. NAVY JACK, MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, DURING WWII, DATED 1944
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A BROAD, ARCHED FORMATION OF HAND-SEWN, SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS, ARCH ABOVE A BEAUTIFULLY HAND-SEWN FEDERAL EAGLE, ATTRIBUTED TO FLAG-MAKER SARAH McFADDEN – “NEW YORK’S BETSY ROSS” – AT 198 HUDSON STREET IN MANHATTAN, circa 1870-1880; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
39 STARS IN TWO SIZES, ALTERNATING FROM ONE COLUMN TO THE NEXT, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH AN UNUSUALLY ELONGATED PROFILE, DATING TO THE 1876 CENTENNIAL, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, REFLECTS THE ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF COLORADO AND THE DAKOTA
42 STARS IN A WHIMSICAL MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR AND INCORPORATES 7 TINY STARS; NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, circa 1889-1890
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH SCATTERED STAR POSITIONING, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890
42 HAND-SEWN STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A TWO-TONE, DUSTY BLUE CANTON, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890
45 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH ITS STARS ARRANGED IN A NOTCHED PATTERN THAT LEAVES 3 SPACES OPEN FOR THE REMAINING WESTERN TERRITORIES THAT HAD YET TO BE ADDED; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF UTAH AS THE 45TH STATE, 1896-1908
45 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MARKED "U.S. ARMY STANDARD BUNTING,” SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF UTAH AS THE 45TH STATE, 1896-1907
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN HOURGLASS FORMATION ON A BRILLIANT BLUE CANTON; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1890-1896
45 UPSIDE-DOWN STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE IN THE ERA OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898), WHEN UTAH WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1896-1908
EXCEPTIONAL 34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR FLAG WITH A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN ca 1861-63, WITH STRIPES THAT BEGIN & END ON WHITE, IN A COUNT OF 9 TO OMIT THE 4 SECEDED STATES FROM AMONG THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES, AND WITH APPLIED PANELS THAT READ: “PEACE & LIBERTY”; GIVEN TO DAVIS CAMRON OF “D” Co., 38th OH VOL. BY THE FAMILY OF ORRIN TAYLOR OF “D” & “F” Co.'s, 67th OH INFT'Y, MORTALLY WOUNDED AT APPOMATTOX ON THE VERY DAY OF LEE'S SURRENDER
45 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH BEAUTIFUL, ELONGATED PROPORTIONS AND GENEROUS SCALE, 1896-1908, UTAH STATEHOOD, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE OF FINE SILK, WITH AN OVAL VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN AND A LARGE CENTER STAR, IN AN EXTRAORDINARILY TINY SIZE AMONG FLAGS WITH SEWN CONSTRUCTION; FOUND IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN THE 1850’s AND THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65), LIKELY FOR A MILITIA OR VOLUNTEER UNIT, OR AN OFFICER THEREOF; ILLUSTRATED IN “THE STARS & THE STRIPES: FABRIC OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT” BY RICHARD PIERCE, 2005
NATIVE AMERICAN “GOOD LUCK” HORSESHOE BEADWORK WHIMSEY, IROQUOIS, UPSTATE, NEW YORK, circa 1900-1910
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN FLAG WITH AN APPLIQUED FEDERAL EAGLE AND 14 STARS, MADE IN THE 1850’s BY RENOWNED FLAG MAKER SARAH McFADDEN, “THE BESTY ROSS OF NEW YORK,” FOR THE HUDSON RIVER STEAMSHIP “DELAWARE,” LAUNCHED, 1852; CONSCRIPTED INTO FEDERAL SERVICE BY THE U.S. NAVY AS A CIVIL WAR GUNBOAT IN 1860 (RENAMED U.S.S. DELAWARE, 1861-1865); SOLD TO THE U.S. REVENUE MARINE, WHERE IT SERVED FOR 38 YEARS (1865-1903), FIRST AS U.S.R.C. DELAWARE, THEN AS THE U.S.R.C. LOUIS McCLANE
WWI BOND DRIVE FLAG WITH A WHIMSICAL & ARTISTICALLY COMPELLING EAGLE, PERCHED DIRECTLY ON THE LOWER EDGE OF THE TEXTILE, WITH WINGS UPSTRETCHED IN A “V” FOR “VICTORY,” CRADLING THE SLOGAN: “VICTORY CHEST 100%;” PRUSSIAN BLUE ON A WHITE GROUND; LIKELY MADE FOR THE 5th BOND SUBSCRIPTION, ISSUED MAY 20th, 1919
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, YELLOW & WHITE, SUFFRAGE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN” TEXT, DISTRIBUTED BY THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION UNDER ANNA HOWARD SHAW’S LEADERSHIP [HEADQUARTERED IN NEW YORK], CIRCA 1913-1915
U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN WITH 13 STARS IN THE 4-5-4 PATTERN, A VERY EARLY EXAMPLE, MADE circa 1835-1850’s, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN AND IN A TINY SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS
PRANCING HORSE WEATHERVANE, ATTRIBUTED TO JEWEL & CO. WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, CA 1860
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, YELLOW & WHITE, SUFFRAGE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN” TEXT, DISTRIBUTED BY THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION UNDER ANNA HOWARD SHAW’S LEADERSHIP [HEADQUARTERED IN NEW YORK], CIRCA 1913-1915
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE CIRCA 1895-1926
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH 13 SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS IN A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION, IN A GREAT, SMALL SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS, PROBABLY MADE IN NEW YORK CITY, SIGNED “GRÜNFILD”
38 STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION WITH 2 OUTLIERS, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH VIBRANT COLORATION, REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1876-1889; FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD PIERCE, ILLUSTRATED IN HIS BOOK: “THE STARS & STRIPES: FABRIC OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT” (2005)
HAND-PAINTED 19TH CENTURY BANNER WITH AN 1867 VERSION OF THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, PROPOSED IN THAT YEAR BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, BUT IN A VARIATION NEVER FORMALLY ADOPTED; LIKELY HAVING REPRESENTED DELEGATES OF THAT STATE AT THE 1872 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA, OR THE DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN BALTIMORE [SIMILAR EXAMPLES IDENTIFIED AT BOTH]
UNIQUE, HAND-PAINTED BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, LIKELY HAVING REPRESENTED DELEGATES FROM THAT STATE AT THE 1872 REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION
48 STARFISH-LIKE, NEEDLEWORK EXECUTED STARS ON A HANDMADE, CROCHETED, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE EARLIEST PART OF THE 48 STAR ERA, 1912-WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) OR PERHAPS PRIOR; A WHIMSICAL & EXCEPTIONAL HOMEMADE FLAG OF THE HIGHEST ORDER; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF ARIZONA IN 1912
PAINTING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON IN OIL ON CANVAS, AN EARLY EXAMPLE, RENDERED circa 1830-1850's, A VERY PLEASING AND WELL-EXECUTED COPY OF GILBERT STUART'S ATHENAEUM PORTRAIT
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN EXTREMELY RARE LINEAL CONFIGURATION OF 5-3-5, PROBABLY MADE WITH THE INTENT OF USE BY LOCAL MILITIA OR PRIVATE OUTFITTING OF A VOLUNTEER COMPANY, CIVIL WAR PERIOD, 1861-1865; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
ELONGATED PENNANT MADE FOR THE 1912 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT & HIRAM JOHNSON, WHEN THEY RAN ON THE INDEPENDENT, BULL MOOSE / PROGRESSIVE PARTY TICKET
39 STARS IN TWO SIZES, ALTERNATING FROM ONE COLUMN TO THE NEXT, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG DATING TO THE 1876 CENTENNIAL, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, REFLECTS THE ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF COLORADO AND THE DAKOTA TERRITORY
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH SCATTERED STAR POSITIONING, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890
EARLY UNITED STATES AIR FORCE PENNANT, MADE NEAR THE TIME OF ITS INCEPTION AS ITS OWN BRANCH OF THE MILITARY, circa 1947-1950’s
EXTRAORDINARY, HAND-SEWN, 13 STAR AMERICAN NATIONAL FLAG WITH 8-POINTED STARS ON A GLAZED COTTON, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, 12 STRIPES, AND ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE, FOUND IN UPSTATE, NEW YORK, PRE-CIVIL WAR, CA 1830-1850; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
13 HAND-EMBROIDERED STARS AND EXPERTLY HAND-SEWN STRIPES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE IN PHILADELPHIA BY SARAH M. WILSON, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF BETSY ROSS, SIGNED & DATED 1910; THE LARGEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS VARIETY, MADE AND SOLD TO TOURISTS AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A TINY EXAMPLE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS WITH SEWN CONSTRUCTION, MADE circa 1895-1926, EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, JUNE-JULY 2019
MEXICAN WAR ERA SCROLLING BROADSIDE, WITH DYNAMIC IMAGERY THAT FEATURES THE FIRST 11 AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND 28 STATE SEALS; PRODUCED BY AUGUSTUS MITCHELL & PETER S. DUVAL OF PHILADELPHIA DURING THE ERA WHEN TEXAS WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1845-46
UNUSUAL & GRAPHIC, RED BANDANNA-STYLE, PORTRAIT STYLE PARADE FLAG FROM TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S 1912, INDEPENDENT, BULL MOOSE PARTY CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
13 STARS IN A RARE VARIETY THAT HAS BEEN TERMED A “TRI-CORNER HAT” MEDALLION AND DATES TO THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR (1861-63)
33 STARS IN A DOUBLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG DATING IMMEDIATELY PRE-CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE WAR'S OPENING YEAR, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF OREGON TO THE UNION, 1859-1861
18th CENTURY, NANTUCKET-ORIGIN, STAND-UP BLANKET CHEST, EXUBERANTLY PAINT-DECORATED, OWNED BY THE COFFIN FAMILY AND NICKNAMED "THE TIGER CHEST" BY FAMILY MEMBERS, WHO HANDED IT DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, CIRCA 1780-90
EXTREMELY RARE, SWALLOW-TAILED PARADE FLAG / BANNER WITH A PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND A BLUE, STARRED BORDER, MADE Circa 1876-1890’s, OF A GENERAL TYPE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY THE AMERICAN FLAG COMPANY OF NEW YORK AND OTHERS
TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION PENNANT, CELEBRATING 100-YEARS OF TEXAS INDEPENDENCE FROM MEXICO AND ITS ESTABLISHMENT AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION
42 CANTED STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890
EXCEPTIONAL PATRIOTIC SCHERENSCHNITTE (PAPER CUTTING), IN THE STYLE OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC STIEHLY, ENTITLED “LIBERTY,” WITH IMAGERY THAT INCLUDES AN AMERICAN EAGLE WITH A 14 STAR, 14 STRIPE FLAG IN ITS BEAK, A RATTLESNAKE, LOVE BIRDS, AND EAGLES ON URNS, CA 1830-1850
37 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE & SIGNED BY THE ANNIN COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN AND WITH SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS, IN A SMALL AND VERY DESIRABLE SCALE AMONG THOSE WITH PIECED-AND-SEWN CONSTRUCTION; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN NEBRASKA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1867-1876
CARVED, SPREAD-WINGED EAGLE PEDIMENT WITH TERRIFIC FORM AND EXCEPTIONAL SURFACE, AMERICAN, circa 1850-1880
13 HAND-EMBROIDERED STARS AND EXPERTLY HAND-SEWN STRIPES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE IN PHILADELPHIA BY SARAH M. WILSON, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF BETSY ROSS, SIGNED & DATED 1911
13 HAND-EMBROIDERED STARS AND EXPERTLY HAND-SEWN STRIPES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE IN PHILADELPHIA BY RACHEL ALBRIGHT, GRANDDAUGHTER OF BETSY ROSS, SIGNED & DATED 1903
27 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE TO COMMEMORATE THE 1845 ADDITION OF FLORIDA AS THE 27th STATE, MOST LIKELY FOR DISPLAY AND DISTRIBUTION AT THE 1/5TH SCALE MODEL OF CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS (a.k.a., FORT MARION), THAT HOUSED FLORIDA'S EXHIBITS AT THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR / WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPO
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, DATING TO THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-1865), OR PERHAPS PRIOR, WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE & BEAUTIFUL SNOWFLAKE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION
34 STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION WITH A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR, CIVIL WAR PERIOD, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
ANTIQUE PARCHEESI GAME BOARD, 7-COLOR, CARRIAGE-PAINTED, WITH FANCIFUL SCROLLWORK MEDALLIONS, AMERICAN, circa 1875
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH BEAUTIFULLY HAND-SEWN STARS AND IN A SMALL AND VERY DESIRABLE SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
EXPERTLY CARVED AMERICAN FEDERAL EAGLE, LIKELY OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WITH THE BACKGROUND EXECUTED IN UNUSUALLY DEEP RELIEF & THE HEAD DIRECTED TOWARDS A CLUSTER OF ARROWS, circa 1861-1863
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM LONG TERM USE AND WITH ITS STARS ARRANGED IN A NOTCHED PATTERN THAT LEAVES 4 SPACES OPEN FOR THE REMAINING WESTERN TERRITORIES, REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1890-1896
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A TRIPLE WREATH FORM OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, RARE IN THIS PERIOD WITH A CIRCULAR STAR ARRANGEMENT, 1890-1896, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WYOMING TO THE UNION
"U.S.A." PENNANT WITH A FEDERAL EAGLE, 48 STARS, BEAUTIFUL COLORS, & GREAT GRAPHICS, WWI ERA (1915-1926)
"VOTES FOR WOMEN" PENNANT WITH AN IMAGE OF A 1911 STATUETTE CALLED "SUFFRAGIST" BY ELLA BUCHANNAN, MADE FOR CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT'S "WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY" OF NEW YORK CITY, CA 1912-20
“VICTORY WITH ARMS NEEDS MACHINES ON FARMS”: EXTREMELY RARE WWI POSTER WITH AN EAGLE PERCHED ON A TRACTOR & A TERRIFIC SLOGAN
FRANCO-AMERICAN TEXTILE WITH THE IMAGE OF AN EAGLE SUPPORTING KNOTTED & DRAPED AMERICAN AND FRENCH FLAGS BENEATH FOUR WAR PLANES; RENDERED IN EMBROIDERED SILK FLOSS AND METALLIC BULLION ON SILK, MADE TO CELEBRATE THE END OF WWI
SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT WITH AMERICAN & IRISH PATRIOTIC IMAGERY, SUPPORTING A UNITED, PRO-CATHOLIC IRELAND, circa 1890-1910
SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT WITH A FLYING, WARLIKE EAGLE SUPERIMPOSED ON A CANTED FEDERAL SHIELD & CROSSED AMERICAN FLAGS, BENEATH A STREAMER WITH THE LATIN MOTTO “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” INTERSPERSED WITH 13 STARS, circa 1890-1910
37 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN THROUGHOUT, WITH JUSTIFIED ROWS OF SINGLE-APPLIQUED STARS, MADE & SIGNED BY THE ANNIN COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY, WITH SIGNIFICANT WEAR FROM EXTENDED USE; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN NEBRASKA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1867-1876
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE CIRCA 1890-1896, WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; RARE IN THIS PERIOD WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A NOTCHED CONFIGURATION, MADE BY THE U.S. BUNTING COMPANY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, REFLECTS THE ERA OF COLORADO STATEHOOD, circa 1876-1889
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH 13 SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD, HAND-SEWN STARS & CANTED ANCHOR, A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE WITH ENDEARING WEAR, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1870-1885
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH 13 SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD, HAND-SEWN STARS & CANTED ANCHOR, A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1865-1885
BLACK, TASSELLED, EDWARDIAN STYLE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, MADE BY FOLLMER, CLOGG & Co. OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, MODIFIED FOR SUFFRAGETTE USE BY WAY OF AN APPLIED, CHIFFON SILK PANEL WITH FANCIFUL, SCRIPT-EMBROIDERY THAT READS: “GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE,” circa 1900-1915
BLACK, TASSELLED, EDWARDIAN STYLE PARASOL / UMBRELLA, MADE BY FOLLMER, CLOGG & Co. OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, MODIFIED FOR SUFFRAGETTE USE BY WAY OF AN APPLIED, CHIFFON SILK PANEL WITH FANCIFUL, SCRIPT-EMBROIDERY THAT READS: “GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE,” circa 1900-1915
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
38 STARS, COLORADO STATEHOOD, A SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION PATTERN AND 4 LARGE CORNER STARS, PRESS-DYED ON WOOL BUNTING, MADE BY HORSTMANN BROTHERS IN PHILADELPHIA FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF OUR NATION’S INDEPENDENCE
38 STARS, COLORADO STATEHOOD, A RARE, MEDALLION PATTERN FLAG WITH 4 HUGE CORNER STARS, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF OUR NATION'S INDEPENDENCE, PRESS-DYED ON WOOL BUNTING
38 STARS, COLORADO STATEHOOD, A RARE MEDALLION PATTERN FLAG WITH 4 LARGE CORNER STARS, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF OUR NATION'S INDEPENDENCE, PRESS-DYED ON WOOL BUNTING
ROLLER-PRINTED YARD GOODS TEXTILE, MADE TO MEMORIALIZE GEORGE WASHINGTON SOMETIME BETWEEN LAFAYETTE’S FINAL VISIT & GRAND TOUR OF AMERICA, FROM 1824-25, AND THE 1832 CELEBRATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S 100th BIRTHDAY
PAIR OF MAMMOTH, PAINT-DECORATED, AMERICAN LONG DRUMS OF EXQUISITE QUALITY, BOTH PAINTED ALL-THE-WAY AROUND, ONE WITH A DYNAMIC EAGLE & 14 STARS ON A PRUSSIAN BLUE GROUND, THE OTHER WITH A GOLD EAGLE & 16 STARS, IN A BLUE WREATH, ON A YELLOW & ORANGE GRAIN-DECORATED GROUND, BOTH MADE circa 1845 - 1865
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DUSTY BLUE CANTON, MADE IN THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL, IN AN INTERESTING CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES TRIOS OF STARS IN EACH CORNER AND A SINGLE, CENTER STAR; A RARE VARIANT THAT I CLASSIFY “TRI-CORNER HAT” MEDALLION
ANTIQUE, AMERICAN, 1876 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION PARADE BANNER, WITH AN OVAL STANDING PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS HORSE, ON A GROUND OF RED & WHITE STRIPES
RARE SUFFRAGETTE ARMBAND IN GOLDEN YELLOW FELT, ONE OF ONLY TWO EXAMPLES THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN THIS COLOR & THE ONLY ONE IN THIS EXACT STYLE; MADE circa 1912-1919
26 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH 11 STRIPES AND IT’S CANTON RESTING ON THE “WAR STRIPE.” THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED EXAMPLES, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
PASSAMAQUODDY (MAINE) NATIVE AMERICAN SEWING BASKET WITH AN EXTRAORDINARILY EXUBERANT DESIGN, DATED 1891 WITH A PENCILED INSCRIPTION
PENNSYLVANIA HANGING PIE SAFE, IN FIRST SURFACE GREEN PAINT, WITH CIRCULAR MEDALLION AND OPPOSING FAN DECORATION, CIRCA 1850-1880
RARE & BOLDLY GRAPHIC AMERICAN SUFFRAGETTE POSTER, COMMISSIONED BY THE EMPIRE STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT’S GROUP, circa 1915
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH ITS STARS ARRANGED IN THE "GREAT STAR" PATTERN, ON A DUSTY BLUE CANTON, AND THE FLY END OF THE LAST STRIPE SOUVENIRED; MADE circa 1864-67, CIVIL WAR ERA; LIKELY BELONGING TO CAPTAIN H.R. JENNINGS OF THE 21ST CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, KILLED AT PETERSBURG
36 STARS IN THE "GREAT STAR" OR "GREAT LUMINARY" PATTERN, ON A MERINO WOOL FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA WITH BEAUTIFUL SCARLET AND ROYAL BLUE COLOR AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE "WAR STRIPE," REFLECTS NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-67
CIVIL WAR PERIOD ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 35 STARS IN A “GREAT STAR” OR “GREAT LUMINARY” PATTERN, A VERY RARE VARIETY WITH AN OPEN, LONE STAR PROFILE, LACKING STARS INSIDE OR BEYOND THE ARRANGEMENT; MADE circa 1863-65, REFLECTS THE ADMISSION OF WEST VIRGINIA TO THE UNION AS A FREE STATE, ANNEXED FROM VIRGINIA JUST 10 DAYS BEFORE THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG; PROBABLY WAR-CARRIED
CONFEDERATE FLAG IN THE THIRD NATIONAL FORMAT, PRODUCED IN THE EARLY PART OF THE REUNION ERA, circa 1890 - 1913
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A CIRCULAR VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH ESPECIALLY LARGE STARS SURROUNDING AN EVEN LARGER CENTER STAR; MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN 1850 AND THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65), AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE WITH WONDERFUL FOLK QUALITIES
CARVED OWL BY HENRY WINTER, SETAUKET, NEW YORK, circa 1920-1930's
CARVED EAGLE FROM THE SHOP OF JOHN HALEY BELLAMY, THE MOST RENOWNED CARVER OF THE FORM, w/ WONDERFUL, PUMPKIN BROWN / MUSTARD PAINT & EXCELLENT SURFACE, circa 1875-1890’s
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADED WATCH FOB WITH A STYLIZED FEDERAL EAGLE & SHIELD AND CROSSED AMERICAN FLAGS, circa 1915-1920’s
WAR-PERIOD CONFEDERATE FLAG IN THE FIRST NATIONAL PATTERN (a.k.a., STARS & BARS), IN A TINY SIZE, WITH AN ELONGATED PROFILE, AND 11 STARS ARRANGED IN AN UNUSUAL, RECTANGULAR MEDALLION; ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, MADE BETWEEN MAY - NOVEMBER, 1861
EXTRAORDINARY, HOMEMADE, 1ST CONFEDERATE NATIONAL FLAG, MADE OF LADIES’ DRESS SILK, WITH BEAUTIFUL COLORS AND EXCEPTIONAL PRESSED FOIL STARS, POSSIBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA ORIGIN; LIKELY PRESENTED TO AN OFFICER BY A LOVED ONE AND SEEMINGLY DISPLAYED THEREAFTER AS CONDITIONS PERMITTED; CAPTURED OR SEIZED BY CHAPLAIN-TURNED-GENERAL ELIPHALET WHITTLESEY OF MAINE, A STRONG OPPONENT OF SLAVERY, WHO EVENTUALLY LED AN ALL-BLACK REGIMENT (46TH U.S. COLORED TROOPS)
CONFEDERATE FIRST NATIONAL PATTERN FLAG (a.k.a., STARS & BARS) WITH 11 STARS, IN A TINY SIZE AMONG THOSE WITH PIECED AND SEWN CONSTRUCTION, A HOMEMADE, CIVIL WAR-PERIOD FLAG, FOUND IN GREATER BALTIMORE, LIKELY DISPLAYED FROM A PODIUM, PARADE FLOAT, CARRIAGE, OR STOREFRONT, circa MAY – NOV., 1861
CIVIL WAR PERIOD CONFEDERATE FLAG IN THE FIRST NATIONAL PATTERN (a.k.a., STARS & BARS), HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH 13 STARS ARRANGED IN A WIDELY DISPURSED WREAT OF 12, WITH A LARGE, STARFISH-SHAPED CENTER STAR, ON A CANTON OF BLUE COTTON CHINTZ, DEC. 1861 – JUNE 1863
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADED WATCH FOB WITH A STYLIZED FEDERAL EAGLE & SHIELD AND CROSSED AMERICAN FLAGS, circa 1915-1920’s
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN 8-7-8-7-8 PATTERN OF JUSTIFIED ROWS, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
AMERICAN, PRE-CIVIL WAR, CAST IRON MEDALLION / PLAQUE WITH A FEDERAL EAGLE SUPERIMPOSED ON A SUNBURST, DATED 1857
ANTIQUE, BATWING, LEATHER CHAPS WITH GREAT PATINA AND “TEXAS” SPELLED OUT IN THE STUDS, circa 1915-1930
ANTIQUE, AMERICAN, PAINTED BACKGAMMON GAME BOARD w/ EXAGGERATEDLY STEEP PIPS THAT RESEMBLE ICICLES OR JAGGED TEETH, GENEROUS DEPTH, A MOLDED EDGE, & EXCEPTIONAL SURFACE, circa 1840-60
EXCEPTIONAL GOLD RUSH POCKET SCALE WITH GREEN, ENAMELED TIN, GILT EAGLE & LETTERING THAT READS: “MADE EXPRESSLY FOR CALIFORNIA,” circa 1850
29 STARS IN A SPECTACULAR CROSS OR STARBURST MEDALLION, ONE OF JUST TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES IN THIS STYLE, PRE-CIVIL WAR, 1846-48, MEXICAN WAR PERIOD, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IOWA AS THE 29TH STATE
48 STARS ON A CROCHETED AMERICAN FLAG, PROBABLY MADE IN THE PATRIOTISM OF WWII (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1941-1945), A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE WITH STRIKING COLORS, LARGER THAN TYPICAL IN SCALE, WITH AN INTERESTING, REPEATING, OPEN PATTERN ALONG THE HOIST, THROUGH WHICH A STAFF COULD BE THREADED
48 STAR U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN OF THE WWII ERA (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1941-45), MADE BY DETTRA IN PENNSYLVANIA, WITH A RARE “VALLEY FORGE” NAME BRAND
48 STARS, WWI ERA (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) -1935, MARKED "STERLING," MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY OR NEW JERSEY
MID-18th CENTURY STEPBACK CUPBOARD w/ LOLLIPOP RETURNS, DENTAL MOLDING, AND EXCEPTIONAL, SALMON RED-PAINTED SURFACE, MOHAWK VALLEY, NEW YORK
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH 13 STARS & A CANTED ANCHOR, MADE circa 1910-1945
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN HOURGLASS ARRANGEMENT ON A TWO-TONE BLUE CANTON; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1890-1896
RARE MASONIC TRACING BOARD OF EXQUISITE QUALITY AND LARGE SCALE, IN A DESIGN MODELED AFTER THAT OF MASTER-ENGRAVER THOMAS KENSETT, PAINTED IN OIL ON CANVAS, circa 1815-1840
1840 CAMPAIGN KERCHIEF FEATURING AN IMAGE OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ON HORSEBACK IN MILITARY GARB, ONE OF THE FIRST KNOWN CAMPAIGN TEXTILES IN EARLY AMERICA
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK GAUNTLETS WITH INDIAN CHIEFS IN FEATHERED HEADDRESSES, PROBABLY SIOUX, circa 1880-90
PATRIOTIC, NATIVE AMERICAN, BEADED & QUILLED PIPE BAG w/ AMERICAN FLAGS AND THE VERY RARE INCLUSION OF THE DATE "JULY 4th," ALMOST NEVER ENCOUNTERED ON EARLY TEXTILES OR INDIAN BEADWORK, PROBABLY SIOUX, circa 1890-1910
PATRIOTIC, NATIVE AMERICAN, BEADED & QUILLED PIPE BAG w/ AMERICAN FLAGS AND THE VERY RARE INCLUSION OF THE DATE "JULY 4th," ALMOST NEVER ENCOUNTERED ON EARLY TEXTILES OR INDIAN BEADWORK, PROBABLY SIOUX, circa 1890-1910
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADED BLANKET STRIP, BUFFALO HIDE, NORTHERN CHEYENNE OR LAKOTA SIOUX, EASTERN MONTANA / WESTERN MINNESOTA, LAST QUARTER 19th CENTURY
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADED BLANKET STRIP, BUFFALO HIDE, NORTHERN CHEYENNE OR LAKOTA SIOUX, EASTERN MONTANA / WESTERN MINNESOTA, LAST QUARTER 19th CENTURY
13 STARS IN AN UNUSUAL PATTERN ON A RARE PAPER PARADE FLAG WITH ADVERTISING HOP BITTERS, PROBABLY DISTRIBUTED FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
EXTREMELY RARE 14-STAR, 13-STRIPE FLAG, LIKELY MADE DURING THE ANTEBELLUM WITH AN ABOLITIONIST MESSAGE, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN AND WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS USE, POSSIBLY OF U.S. NAVY ORIGIN, circa 1846-1848; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN 13 STAR FLAG WITH A 6-POINTED GREAT STAR / STAR OF DAVID PATTERN, ONE OF A TINY HANDFUL OF PIECED-AND-SEWN EXAMPLES WITH THIS EXTRAORDINARILY RARE STAR DESIGN, MADE DURING THE CIVIL WAR ERA; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
40 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, AN EXTREMELY RARE COUNT REFLECTING THE ADDITION OF SOUTH & NORTH DAKOTA ON NOVEMBER 2ND, 1889, ACCURATE FOR JUST 6 DAYS; WITH OVERPRINTED ADVERTISING FOR A CIVIL WAR VERTERN’S UNIT IN GEORGETOWN, MASSACHUSETTS; ILLUSTRATED IN “THE STARS & STRIPES: FABRIC OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT” by RICHARD PIERCE (2005); EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG & MATCHING 6 STAR HOMEWARD BOUND PENNANT, (NEVADA STATEHOOD), 1864-1867; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
29 STARS IN A SPECTACULAR, RECTANGULAR MEDALLION WITH 4 STARS INSIDE THE PERIMETER AND A HUGE CENTER STAR ON AN OPEN BLUE EXPANSE; AMONG THE RAREST OF ALL KNOWN STAR COUNTS ON PIECED-AND-SEWN EXAMPLES, IOWA STATEHOOD, 1846-48, MEXICAN WAR PERIOD; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
22 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA; A SOUTHERN-EXCLUSIONARY COUNT ARRANGED IN A DOUBLE-WREATH MEDALLION CONFIGURATION; HOMEMADE OF WOOL AND COTTON; A RARE STAR COUNT IN ANY PERIOD; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
19 STARS IN AN SPECTACULAR STARBURST MEDALLION UNIQUE TO THIS FLAG, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE OPENING OF THE 1890'S, EITHER TO REFLECT NORTHERN SYMPATHIES, BY REPRESENTING THE COMPLEMENT OF UNION-SUPPORTING STATES AT THE TIME, OR TO COMMEMORATE INDIANA AS THE 19TH STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STARS, AN EXTRAORDINARY SURVIVOR OF THE 1820-1840 PERIOD OR PRIOR; FORMERLY ACCOMPANIED THE "EASTON FLAG" AT THE EASTON PUBLIC LIBRARY IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, JUNE-JULY 2019
34 STARS IN 4 ROWS WITH 2 STARS OFFSET AT THE HOIST END, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG LIKELY PRODUCED FOR MILITARY FUNCTION, AS UNION ARMY CAMP COLORS; ONE OF JUST A TINY HANDFUL THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN THIS EXACT STYLE, REFLECTS KANSAS STATEHOOD, OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-63), WITH WOVEN STRIPES, PRESS-DYED STARS, AND BEAUTIFUL COLORS, POSSIBLY MADE IN NEW YORK BY THE ANNIN COMPANY, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF KANSAS TO THE UNION, 1861-1863
18 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STRIPES, LIKELY MADE TO COMMEMORATE THE 1812 ADMISSION OF LOUISIANA AS THE 18TH STATE, AND PRODUCED EITHER FOR THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR, OR THE 1876 PHILADELPHIA WORLD’S FAIR, ATTRIBUTED TO LEADING, CIVIL WAR, U.S. ARMY ENGINEER & CHICAGO ARCHITECT, WILLIAM LeBARON JENNEY
WOOLY, ANGORA CHAPS WITH BEAUTIFULLY TOOLED LEATHER, MADE BY THE JOHN CLARK SADDLERY COMPANY OF PORTLAND, OREGON, SIGNED, CIRCA 1873-1929
UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY PENNANT WITH "BILL THE GOAT" MASCOT AND WHIMSICAL LETTERING, circa 1930-1950’s
39 STARS IN A LINEAL PATTERN WITH A HUGE, HALOED CENTER STAR AND DYNAMIC VISUAL FEATURES, ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, REFLECTS THE ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF COLORADO AND THE DAKOTA TERRITORY
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG / ENSIGN, WITH 13 STARS & A CANTED ANCHOR, MADE BY WM. H. HORSTMANN CO., PHILADELPHIA, circa 1893 – 1920’s
WWII LIBERATION FLAG w/ 23 SILVER GILT STARS ON A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON & 16 STRIPES, MADE TO WELCOME U.S. TROOPS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING LIBERATION FROM THE GERMANS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1944 NORMANDY INVASION; FOUND IN BRITTANY, IN LE CONQUET, THE WESTERNMOST TOWN ON THE FRENCH MAINLAND, LIBERATED BY THE FREE FRENCH & THE 5TH ARMY RANGER BATTALION
HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS AND GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY
HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF OREGON AND GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY
HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, , PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY
HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER w/ THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION AT TAMMANY HALL, NEW YORK CITY
13 HAND-SEWN STARS IN A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, SIGNED & DATED 1902
13 STARS IN A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE, U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, NEW YORK, SIGNED & DATED 1912
LARGE & BEAUTIFULLY FADED, ANTIQUE AMERICAN JACK w/ 45 STARS ARRANGED IN A “NOTCHED” PATTERN, INTENTIONALLY LEAVING SPACE FOR THE 3 REMAINING WESTERN TERRITORIES YET TO BE ADDED; MADE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1896 - 1908, WHEN UTAH WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA
LARGE CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR THE 53RD NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 5th REGIMENT, "EAGLE BRIGADE," WITH AN ATTRACTIVE AND COMPELLING IMAGE OF ITS COMMANDER, LT. COL. GEORGE A. BUCKINGHAM OF NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1862
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES AN ENORMOUS CENTER STAR, REFLECTS THE PERIOD OF COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890
13 STARS ARRANGED IN 6-POINTED GREAT STAR / STAR OF DAVID PATTERN, AN EXTREMELY SCARCE EXAMPLE, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, FEATURING THREE SIZES OF WHIMSICALLY SHAPED STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION
WATERCOLOR OF A PINK ROOSTER, CLIPPED FROM A BOOK OR JOURNAL, PROBABLY BY HENRY KACHEL, circa 1863, BASED UPON HIS SIGNATURE ACCOMPANYING A SIMILAR DRAWING FOUND WITH THIS ONE, PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN, LANCASTER COUNTY
AMERICAN FLAG, 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE IN SEPTEMBER OF 1943, DURING WWII, AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS LONG-TERM USE
PAIR OF EXTRAORDINARY CIVIL WAR VETERAN’S FLAGS WITH HIGHLY UNUSUAL OVERPRINTS THAT INCLUDE REGIMENTAL DESIGNATIONS FROM THE 5th NEW YORK HEAVY ARTILLERY & THE 115th NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY; EACH WITH A DIFFERENT ANTICIPATORY STAR COUNT (46 STARS IN 1902 & 48 STARS IN 1905)
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS PENNANT FROM PARRIS ISLAND, circa WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) -1930’s
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS PENNANT, circa 1914-1920’s
POWER SQUADRONS ENSIGN, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY or NEW JERSEY, circa 1914-WWII ERA
ANTIQUE, CIVIL WAR PLAYING CARDS w/ STARS, FLAGS, SHIELDS, & EAGLES, & FACE CARDS THAT FEATURE LADY COLUMBIA & UNION ARMY OFFICERS; MADE BY BENJAMIN HITCHCOCK, NEW YORK, 1862
ANTIQUE, CIVIL WAR PLAYING CARDS w/ STARS, FLAGS, SHIELDS, & EAGLES, & FACE CARDS THAT FEATURE LADY COLUMBIA & UNION ARMY OFFICERS; MADE BY BENJAMIN HITCHCOCK, NEW YORK, 1862
RARE, ANTIQUE, CIVIL WAR CHESS SET w/ NEW YORK-MADE BOARD THAT FEATURES ALBUMEN PHOTOS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN & UNION ARMY GENERALS, PATENTED 1862 BY WALTER S. HILL & SAMUEL T. REED, ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE, HAND-CARVED, BONE PLAYING PIECES THAT DISASSEMBLE FOR EASE OF TRANSPORT
PAINTED, PENNSYLVANIA BACKGAMMON GAMEBOARD w/ STAR OF DAVID & WAGON WHEEL ON A KELLY GREEN BACKGROUND, BEAUTIFULLY MOLDED, SIGNED "WISE," circa 1850-80
PAINT-DECORATED AMERICAN PEDESTAL TABLE w/ CARRIAGE-PAINTED DECORATION IN RED & GREEN ON A WHITE GROUND, circa 1830-1840, PROBABLY OF MAINE ORIGIN
ANTIQUE, AMERICAN, BACKGAMMON GAME BOARD, PAINTED RED, BLACK, AND OCHRE WHITE, w/ LEAF-LIKE MEDALLIONS, circa 1870-90
ANTIQUE AMERICAN GAME BOARD, CHECKERS OR CHESS, RED & BLACK w/ SHADOWED GOLD SCROLLWORK, circa 1840-70
PAINT-DECORATED, ANTIQUE, 19th CENTURY RACE HORSE GAME WHEEL w/ CAST ZINC HORSES & EXCEPTIONAL, ORIGINAL SURFACE, AMERICAN, circa 1880-90 [GAME BOARD]
PAINT-DECORATED, ANTIQUE, 19th CENTURY GAME WHEEL IN SCARLET RED, CHROME YELLOW, AND BLACK, w/ EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHICS & SURFACE, AMERICAN, circa 1880 [GAME BOARD]
COLORFULLY PAINTED, ANTIQUE, PARCHEESI GAME BOARD IN A VARIETY I HAVE CATEGORIZED AS "SNOWFLAKE" BOARDS, CHEDDAR YELLOW & RED, circa 1885
MASTERFULLY GILDED & PAINT-DECORATED, ANTIQUE PARCHEESI GAME BOARD w/ CHERUBS, AMERICAN, circa 1870
“HICKORY DICKERY DOCK,” ANTIQUE PARKER BROTHERS BOARD GAME w/ GRAPHICS THAT INCLUDE A CAT, MOUSE, & TALL CASE CLOCK, circa 1900:
COLORFULLY PAINTED, ANTIQUE GAME WHEEL WITH A NICKLE-PLATED SPINNER, MADE IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, circa 1890-1910
"VISIT TO CAMP," RARE, ANTIQUE, CIVIL WAR CARD GAME BY McLAUGHLIN BROTHERS OF NEW YORK, circa 1871
"VISIT TO CAMP," RARE, ANTIQUE, CIVIL WAR CARD GAME BY McLAUGHLIN BROTHERS OF NEW YORK, circa 1871
FRANCO-AMERICAN TEXTILE WITH THE IMAGE OF AN EAGLE SUPPORTING KNOTTED & DRAPED AMERICAN AND FRENCH FLAGS BENEATH FOUR WAR PLANES; RENDERED IN EMBROIDERED SILK FLOSS AND METALLIC BULLION ON SILK, MADE TO CELEBRATE THE END OF WWI
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN WATERCOLOR ON PAPER OF A FLYING YELLOW BIRD WITH PINK WINGS, LIKELY BY A CHILD, CIRCA 1830-1860
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN WATERCOLOR OF A STANDING YELLOW BIRD WITH A RED HEAD AND BLUE WINGS, ON THE REVERSE OF A JOURNAL PAGE, LIKELY BY A CHILD, DATED 1848
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN WATERCOLOR OF A BIRD, WITH A POEM ON THE REVERSE, DATED DURING THE THIRD YEAR OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1863
RARE VIOLET & YELLOW SUFFRAGETTE PARADE BANNER WITH PAINTED TEXT THAT READS: “ONE MILLION ORGANIZED CLUB WOMEN ENDORSE, WOMANS SUFFRAGE.” MADE circa 1910-1920, THIS IS THE PLATE EXAMPLE FROM THE BEST PICTORIAL REFERENCE ON SUFFRAGE COLLECTING
VOTES FOR WOMEN PARADE TEXTILE IN PURPLE AND GREEN, OF A TYPE WORN AS SASHES AND WAVED AS NARROW PARADE BANNERS, MADE IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT BY CALHOUN PRESS FOR THE WOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION OF NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, AND NEW JERSEY, ORGANIZED BY CARRIE STANTON'S DAUGHTER, HARRIOT EATON STANTON BLATCH, 1910-1915
UNUSUAL PAPER SUFFRAGE PENNANT, WITH BOLD AND WHIMSICAL, WESTERN STYLE LETTERING, circa 1915
AMERICAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT PENNANT WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, BOLD COLOR, AND IN AN EXCEPTIONAL STATE OF PRESERVATION; circa 1912-1919
FAUX BOIS PEDESTAL TABLE WITH TERRIFIC FORM & SURFACE, FRENCH, circa 1930
SUBSTANTIAL PHEASANT ANDIRONS, SOLID CAST IRON, ATTRIBUTED TO A LANCASTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDRY, circa 1880-1915
24 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN MISSOURI WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1821-1836, EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE “WAR STRIPE” OR “BLOOD STRIPE," AND IN A REMARKABLY TINY SCALE AMONG FLAGS OF THIS ERA
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, ONE OF JUST TWO U.S. NAVY ENSIGNS I HAVE ENCOUNTERED WITH THE BLACK-INKED STENCIL “N.Y. B.” FOR ‘NAVY YARD, BROOKLYN,’ DATED “1859,” TWO YEARS BEFORE KANSAS WAS ADMITTED AS THE 34TH STATE; MARKED WITH THE NAME OF SAMUEL B. CHILDS, A NEW YORK PHYSICIAN WHO CLERKED FOR THE NAVY, AND SON OF A CAREER NAVAL OFFICER, JAMES CHILDS, WHO SERVED FOR 60 YEARS AS A SAILMAKER (1822-1881)
34 HAND-SEWN, UPSIDE-DOWN STARS ON A HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A VARIANT OF WHAT I HAVE CLASSIFIED AS A “GLOBAL” PATTERN, ON AN INTERESTING, SEAFOAM BLUE CANTON; REFLECTS KANSAS STATEHOOD, OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863
18 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 STRIPES, A “DISUNION” FLAG, MADE WITH AN ABOLITIONIST MESSAGE, circa 1859-1861, EXCLUDING THE SLAVE STATES; WITH A 19TH STAR ADDED ON THE OBVERSE; OWNED BY HARVARD-TRAINED, MASSACHUSETTS PHYSICIAN BENJAMIN CUSHING, WHO VOLUNTEERED AS A U.S. ARMY SURGEON, DEVOID OF RANK OR PAY, STATIONED AT FORT MONROE, VIRGINIA, ‘CONTRABAND CAMP’ FOR ESCAPING SLAVES AND THE ONLY UNION-CONTROLLED, FORTIFIED BASE IN THE UPPER SOUTH
STAG WEATHERVANE WITH TREMENDOUS, YELLOW-PAINTED SURFACE, FOUND NEAR PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, circa 1840-1870
RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL 1976 BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FLAG WITH 56 STARS, DESIGNED BY HENRY FREDETTE OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS, COPYRIGHTED IN 1974
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
EARLY KERCHIEF IN THE FORM OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE BEAR FLAG, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1915
48 STAR U.S. NAVY JACK, MARKED AS HAVING BEEN FLOWN ON THE U.S.S. FT. MANDAN, LAUNCHED NEAR THE END OF WWII, IN 1945, WITH SERVICE DURING BOTH THE KOREAN AND VIETNAM WAR ERAS, IN THE ARCTIC, AT THE NORTH POLE, AND AT GUANTANAMO BAY DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS; FLOWN DURING THE EARLIEST POINT OF THE SHIP’S SERVICE, THE FLAG EXHIBITS ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS USE
EARLY AMERICAN TRADE SIGN: “B. BRISCOE, TAILOR,” circa 1810-1850, WITH A BACKWARDS “S” AND EXTRAORDINARY SURFACE
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN OUTSTANDING OVAL MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS ON A NARROW CANTON THAT RESTS ON THE 6TH STRIPE, A HOMEMADE EXAMPLE OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
13 STARS IN THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, WITH 45 STARS ON THE REVERSE; ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE AND SIGNED BY A PREVIOUSLY UNIDENTIFIED FLAG-MAKER, ANNIE MAC LACHLAN OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, circa 1896-1908; A RARE AND INTERESTING EXAMPLE, IN A LARGE SCALE AMONG EARLY 13 STAR FLAGS IN THIS DESIGN
OCEAN WAVES PATTERN MENNONITE CRIB QUILT, MADE OF WHITE CALICO SHIRTING AND TURKEY RED COTTON, PENNSYLVANIA OR NEW YORK STATE ORIGIN, circa 1880-1890’s
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA FARM SALE BROADSIDE IN A LARGE SCALE, WITH GREAT GERMANIC TEXT & GRAPHICS, 1918
LARGE CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR THE 53RD NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 5th REGIMENT, "EAGLE BRIGADE," WITH AN ATTRACTIVE AND COMPELLING IMAGE OF ITS COMMANDER, LT. COL. GEORGE A. BUCKINGHAM OF NEW YORK CITY, CIRCA 1862
CARRIAGE-PAINTED CHECKERBOARD OF EXTRAORDINARY LENGTH, HIGHLY UNUSUAL AND WITH EXTRAORDINARY PAINT SURFACE, SINGLE PLANK CONSTRUCTION WITH BREADBOARDED ENDS, USED TO CUT FABRIC ON THE REVERSE, circa 1860-1880
ABC PICTURE BLOCKS, 1870-90
ELABORATE CALLIGRAPHY DRAWING FEATURING DIANA, GODDESS OF THE HUNT, RIDING A STAG, SIGNED AND DATED 1888
LARGE HOOKED RUG WITH A SEATED CAT AS THE HOME SQUARE OF A DESIGN STYLED AFTER A PARCHEESI GAME BOARD, WITH STAR-LIKE, 6-PETAL FLOWERS IN EACH CORNER; WOOL & COTTON ON BURLAP, PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, MENNONITE, circa 1880-1910
CARRIAGE-PAINTED, FIVE-COLOR, AMERICAN BACKGAMMON BOARD WITH A PUMPKIN ORANGE GROUND, DECORATED WITH BRASS STUDS, circa 1880
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania German Watercolor
COPY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ON CLOTH, PRINTED IN BOSTON IN 1832 TO MEMORIALIZE THE PASSING OF THE LAST SURVIVING SIGNER, CHARLES CARROLL OF MARYLAND, IN THE YEAR THAT COINCIDED WITH THE 100th BIRTHDAY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
AMERICAN PATRIOTIC FLAG QUILT WITH 44 BLUE STARS SET UPON A WHITE GROUND IN THE TOP CENTER OF 13 RED, WHITE, AND BLUE STRIPES, 1890-1896, WYOMING STATEHOOD
AMERICAN PATRIOTIC FLAG QUILT WITH 44 BLUE STARS SET UPON A WHITE GROUND IN THE TOP CENTER OF 13 RED, WHITE, AND BLUE STRIPES, 1890-1896, WYOMING STATEHOOD
43 STARS, IDAHO STATEHOOD, ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY; AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE U.S. INFANTRY BATTLE FLAG, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, MADE FOR AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN UNIT OF CIVIL WAR ORIGIN, CA 1889
43 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IDAHO IN 1890, ACCURATE FOR JUST 7 DAYS
43 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG REFLECTING IDAHO STATEHOOD, ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY; A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY FLAG-MAKING WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL STARBURST MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, CIRCA 1890
43 GILT-PAINTED STARS ON A SILK, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH BULLION FRINGE; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IDAHO AS THE 43RD STATE ON JULY 3RD, 1890, ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
43 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, ONE OF JUST THREE KNOWN EXAMPLES AND THE ONLY ONE WITH A DYNAMIC STAR PATTERN; ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS AMONG SURVIVING AMERICAN FLAGS OF THE 19TH CENTURY; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IDAHO AS THE 43RD STATE IN 1890
STEVENSGRAPH BOOKMARK, WITH A PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THEM
13 STAR RIBBON, WOVEN SILK, circa 1876-1910
WINTERBERRY PATTERN QUILT WITH FLYING GEESE, IN PATRIOTIC COLORS AND WITH EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHIC IMPACT, ENTIRELY HAND-PIECED AND HAND-QUILTED, CIRCA 1860-1870’s
WINTERBERRY PATTERN QUILT WITH FLYING GEESE, IN PATRIOTIC COLORS AND WITH EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHIC IMPACT, ENTIRELY HAND-PIECED AND HAND-QUILTED, CIRCA 1860-1870’s
33 STARS, LATER UPDATED TO 35, WITH A RARE AND INTERESTING DIAMOND CONFIGURATION, ACCOMPANIED BY HAND-WRITTEN NOTES THAT RECORD IT AS HAVING BEEN FLOWN IN CELEBRATION OF WARTIME VICTORIES, AS WELL AS TO MOURN THE DEATH OF THREE PRESIDENTS; MADE IN 1861 BY MRS. JOHN DUNN OF MILES GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA (ERIE COUNTY)
CANADIAN RED ENSIGN WITH THE ARMS OF CANADA, IN THE DESIGN ADOPTED IN 1922, IN USE UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 1957; THIS EXAMPLE LIKELY MADE circa 1920’s – 1940’s
1890-1910 ERA EXAMPLE OF THE “GRAND UNION," THE FIRST NATIONAL FLAG OF AMERICA WHEN STILL A BRITISH COLONY; ONE OF JUST A HANDFUL OF EARLY EXAMPLES THAT SURVIVE IN THIS RARE DESIGN
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, 1876 EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST NATIONAL FLAG OF AMERICA, THE “GRAND UNION”, MADE BY HORSTMANN BROS. & CO. OF PHILADELPHIA FOR THE CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
48 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG DESIGNED AND COMMISSIONED BY WAYNE WHIPPLE, 1909-1912, A RARE AND HIGHLY DESIRED, SILK EXAMPLE, IN AN EXCEPTIONAL STATE OF PRESERVATION
DRAMATIC, CIRCULAR FLAG FAN OF UNCOMMONLY HUGE SIZE, WITH UNUSUAL CONSTRUCTION, MADE IN THE WWI ERA (1917-18), CAREFULLY CONSERVED AND PRESENTED IN A DEEP, CUSTOM-MADE SHADOWBOX
PRINCESS FEATHER QUILT IN PATRIOTIC COLORS, STUNNING & HIGHLY UNUSUAL WITH SOLID RED ON A DARK BLUE GROUND, CIRCA 1870-1885
13 STARS IN A SIX-POINTED GREAT STAR / STAR OF DAVID PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, FORMERLY IN THE MASTAI COLLECTION
CIVIL WAR PERIOD, CONFEDERATE, SOUTHERN CROSS BATTLE FLAG, IN A VARIANT OF THE TYPE MADE AT THE RICHMOND DEPOT, PRIMARILY DISTRIBUTED TO ROBERT E. LEE’S ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA; FIELD-CARRIED AND QUITE POSSIBLY CAPTURED, LIKELY PRODUCED BETWEEN JULY, 1862 AND FEBRUARY, 1865, AS PART OF THE 3rd OR 7th BUNTING ISSUES
“EQUESTRIAN WASHINGTON,” OIL ON CANVAS PAINTING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ON BLUESKIN, AFTER REMBRANDT PEALE, circa 1830-1850 (POSSIBLY PRIOR)
ENGLISH POINTER ON POINT OVER PHEASANT, BY OR IN THE CIRCLE OF PHILIP REINAGLE (1749-1833), BRITISH, OIL ON CANVAS, circa 1820
U.S. NAVY COMMISSION PENNANT OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-1865), WITH 13 STARS, ENTIRELY HAND SEWN, AN EXCEPTIONAL SURVIVOR
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A TRIPLE WREATH FORM OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, RARE IN THIS PERIOD WITH A CIRCULAR STAR ARRANGEMENT, 1890-1896, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WYOMING TO THE UNION
45 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH STAGGERED ROWS OF STARS ON A DUSTY BLUE CANTON; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN UTAH WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1896-1908
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A LINEAL ARRANGEMENT THAT I HAVE TERMED "GLOBAL ROWS, WITH EXCEPTIONAL COLOR AND CRUDE YET BEAUTIFUL FEATURES, OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS ON AN INDIGO CANTON, SQUARISH PROPORTIONS, AND A BEAUTIFUL OVERALL PRESENTATION, MADE circa 1895-1926
33 STARS ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A "GREAT STAR" CONFIGURATION ON A BRILLIANT, INDIGO BLUE CANTON, A RARE AND EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLE, PRE-CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE WAR'S OPENING YEAR, 1859-1861, OREGON STATEHOOD
48 STARS ON ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-WRITTEN INSCRIPTIONS AND AN EMBROIDERED DATE OF APRIL 12TH, 1945, MOURNING THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
"EQUAL SUFFRAGE FOR MICHIGAN IN 1916," ADVERTISING FAN FOR THE BISSELL 'CYCO BALL BEARING CARPET SWEEPER,' COMMISSIONED BY ANNA BISSELL (1846-1934), AMERICA'S FIRST FEMALE CEO
35 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS, PERHAPS THE BEST SURVIVING EXAMPLE IN THIS RARE FORM, CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WEST VIRGINIA STATEHOOD, 1863-1865
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, WWI-WWII ERA (1917-1945)
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE CIRCA 1895-1926
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE DURING WWII, IN DECEMBER OF 1943, AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, SIGNED & DATED
1876 CENTENNIAL ERA 13 STAR FLAG WITH 13 HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN ELONGATED FORM OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION
EXTREMELY EARLY KERCHIEF WITH A CHART OF 152 INTERNATIONAL MARITME FLAGS, PRINTED ON CLOTH, circa 1837-1845, WITH A 26 STAR AMERICAN FLAG AT THE TOP LEFT
RARE 26 STAR U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONING PENNANT, 55 FEET ON THE FLY, 1837-1845, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
EXTREMELY RARE, SILK, ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH 26 STARS, THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED EXAMPLES, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
EXTREMELY RARE, COTTON, ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH 26 STARS, 11 STRIPES, AND ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE; THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED EXAMPLES, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
EXTREMELY RARE 26 STAR PARADE FLAG, THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED FLAGS, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
26 STARS, THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED FLAGS, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD, ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE "WAR" STRIPE
26 STARS, the EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT for PRINTED FLAGS, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN
26 STARS IN THE "GREAT STAR" CONFIGURATION, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, PRE-CIVIL WAR, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD, 1837-1845
26 STARS ARRANGED IN A STUNNING "GREAT STAR" CONFIGURATION, THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED EXAMPLES, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
26 STAR AMERICAN NATIONAL FLAG, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN AND MADE OF SILK, WITH EMBROIDERED STARS ARRANGED IN THE FORM OF A WHIMSICAL GREAT STAR PATTERN. AN EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLE IN A RARE, SMALL SIZE, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD, 1837-1845
PAINTED, MECHANICAL, CAST IRON BANK WITH AN EAGLE FEEDING EAGLETS, MADE BY STEVENS, circa 1883
BRONZE INKWELL IN THE FORM OF AN EAGLE’S HEAD, circa 1850-1880, PROBABLY AMERICAN, UNSIGNED
STERLING SILVER MATCH HOLDER IN THE FORM OF AN EAGLE’S HEAD, WITH BEAUTIFUL FORM AND INLAID, GLASS EYES, BRITISH, CIRCA 1900-1940
EXTREMELY RARE 36 STAR FLAG WITH A SIX COLOR OVERPRINT THAT INCLUDES THE FIGURE OF LADY COLUMBIA, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, POSSIBLY DISTRIBUTED DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION PARADE FLAG WITH LADY COLUMBIA
45 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH ITS STARS ARRANGED IN A NOTCHED PATTERN, 1896-1908, UTAH STATEHOOD
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN OVAL VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN, MADE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
EXTRAORDINARY MARINE CORPS RECRUITMENT POSTER BY SIDNEY RIESENBERG (1885-1971), WITH SHARPLY APPOINTED OFFICERS STROLLING IN AN EXOTIC LOCAL, LIKELY DERNA OR MARRAKESH (i.e., “THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI”), circa 1913-1918
NATIONAL TRICOLOR FLAG OF ITALY WITH THE SHIELD AND CROSS DEVICE IN THE CENTER PALE, WWII ERA, ca 1940-1945
PRIVATE YACHT CLUB COMMODORE'S FLAG, MADE BY HORSTMANN IN PHILADELPHIA, circa 1927-1940's
WWI U.S. MARINE CORPS RECRUITING POSTER, ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES B. FALLS, DEPICTING THE CORPS AS A BULL DOG, CHASING GERMANY, REPRESENTED AS A DASCHUND, BENEATH A SLOGAN THAT REPRESENTS ONE OF THE FIRST GRAPHIC USES OF THE NICKNAME “DEVIL DOGS,” circa 1918
34 STARS IN A "GREAT STAR" PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A BRILLIANT, ROYAL BLUE CANTON, MADE OF SILK; OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
ONE OF THE TWO EARLIEST KNOWN EXAMPLES OF THE FLAG OF THE REVENUE MARINE (a.k.a., REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE), WITH A HAND-PAINTED EAGLE, AN ARCH OF 13 BLUE-PAINTED STARS, HAVING GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, AND 13 VERTICAL STRIPES, LATE 1830’s-1860
ICONIC, MASSACHUSETTS WOMENS SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION (MWSA) "BLUE BIRD", COMMISSIONED BY TWO OF ITS MEMBERS; MADE FOR THE EASTERN CAMPAIGN IN 1915
“THE OWL GAMEBOARD NO. 1”, A COMBINATION OF 100 GAMES, PATENTED IN 1901 BY CABINET-MAKER EDWARD MIKKELSON, CHICAGO
SUFFRAGE "BLUE BIRD": ENAMELED TIN SIGN, COMMISSIONED BY GERTRUDE LEONARD & TERESA CROWLEY FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, FOR ITS EASTERN CAMPAIGN, 1915
CONFEDERATE 1ST NATIONAL PATTERN FLAG (A.K.A., "STARS & BARS"), A HOMEMADE, SILK EXAMPLE WITH 7 HAND-EMBROIDERED STARS, LIKELY MADE POST WAR, circa 1870-1880’s, TO COMMEMORATE THE FIRST WAVE OF SECESSION
"A NATION'S LOSS": SILK, 1865, ABRAHAM LINCOLN MOURNING RIBBON IN AN ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE PORTRAIT DESIGN
RIFLE STYLE PARADE TORCH, AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE, circa 1860-1880's
RARE BRITISH RED ENSIGN OF THE LATTER 19TH CENTURY, MADE BY HORSTMANN & BROTHERS COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA FOR DISPLAY AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, ONE OF TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES
EXCEPTIONAL RED CROSS BANNER WITH WHIMSICAL LETTERING AND A TERRIFIC SLOGAN, WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18), ONE OF APPROXIMATELY THREE EXAMPLES PRESENTLY IDENTIFIED
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A NOTCHED CONFIGURATION, MADE BY THE U.S. BUNTING COMPANY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, REFLECTS THE ERA OF COLORADO STATEHOOD, circa 1876-1889
3 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS – 3 WARS: A FUN, INTERESTING, AND RARE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN POSTER FROM EITHER THE 1952 OR 1956 CAMPAIGNS OF EISENHOWER vs. ADALAI STEVENSON, OR PERHAPS THE 1960 CAMPAIGN OF NIXON vs. KENNEDY
38 STAR AMERICAN FLAG RIBBON WITH JUSTIFIED ROWS OF CANTED STARS AND AN ATTRACTIVE, ELONGATED PROFILE, COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
WOOL HOOKED RUG WITH TWO BLACK HORSES, APPLES, & WONDERFUL FOLK QUALITIES, AMERICAN, circa 1865-1880
PILOT HOUSE / TRADE EAGLE ON A HALF-GLOBE PERCH, HAND-MADE OF MOLDED COPPER, LIKELY ON AN IRON FRAMEWORK, circa 1860-1890
EXTREMELY RARE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG, IN A SIZE AND STYLE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN ORDERED AT RICHMOND BY GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON, FOR USE BY CONFEDERATE CAVALRY IN THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA (ANV), BUT THOUGHT TO HAVE NEVER BEEN PRODUCED; LIKELY MADE BETWEEN JULY, 1862 - FEBRUARY, 1865, AS PART OF THE 3rd -7th ISSUES OF ANV BATTLE FLAGS
EXTREMELY RARE WEFTWORK BEDSPREAD, MID-19TH CENTURY
49 STAR AMERICAN FLAG IN A SMALL SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS WITH PIECED AND SEWN CONSTRUCTION, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF ALASKA IN 1959, OFFICIAL FOR JUST ONE YEAR; EXHIBITED JUNE-SEPTEMBER, 2021 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
SMALL PARADE FLAG IN A RECTANGULAR, SOUTHERN CROSS FORM OF THE CONFEDERATE “BATTLE FLAG”, MADE FOR THE LAST REUNION OF UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS (U.C.V.) IN 1951, AT NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ACCOMPANIED BY A U.S.P.S. FIRST DAY COVER AND (2) 3-CENT STAMPS, PRODUCED TO COMMEMORATE THE EVENT
13 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) AND THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, WITH A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON AND IN AN UNUSUALLY LARGE SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS
31 STARS ON AN EXTRAORDINARY ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A RANDOM CONSTELLATION, IN VARIOUS SHAPES AND SIZES, CLUSTERED ABOUT AN ENORMOUS CENTER STAR, WITH A COMPLEMENT OF 10 STRIPES; A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY AMERICAN FLAG-MAKING, CALIFORNIA STATEHOOD, 1850-1858
OVER-SIZED, PAINT-DECORATED BASEBALL BAT, PRESENTED TO "J. WHIPPLE" OF THE "ERIE BASEBALL CLUB," CA 1858-1870's
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH CANTED STARS IN DANCING ROWS, ON A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON; CIVIL WAR ERA, NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-1867
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, FEATURING THREE SIZES OF WHIMSICALLY SHAPED STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION
ONE OF THE TWO BEST OF ALL KNOWN FLAGS ADVERTISING ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S 1864 INCUMBENT PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, WITH VICE PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATE ANDREW JOHNSON; ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION OF 34 STARS, IN THREE DIFFERENT SIZES, THAT FEATURES HUGE STARS IN EACH CORNER, WITH 9 STRIPES AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE, BOLD LETTERING , AND IN AN IDEAL SCALE AMONG ALL FLAGS OF THIS ERA
EXTRAORDINARY SILK FLAG, COMMISSIONED BY OR PRESENTED TO THE ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS “WIDE AWAKES,” IN SUPPORT OF THE 1860 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN & HANNIBAL HAMLIN, POSSIBLY CARRIED AT THE OPENING OF THE CIVIL WAR BY COMPANY D OF THE 11TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY
OUTSTANDING, 13 STAR, ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH GREAT FOLK QUALITIES THAT INCLUDE AN UNUSUALLY WIDE ANCHOR AND A DECIDEDLY LOPSIDED RING OF 13 STARS; MADE DURING THE 2ND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY; ITS DEVICE HAND-SEWN AND SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE CIRCA 1895-1926, INSCRIBED “RoBT SCOTT” ALONG THE HOIST WITH A DIP PEN, SEEMINGLY BY A CHILD
38 STARS IN A "NOTCHED" PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DUSTY BLUE CANTON; LEAVES SPACE FOR MORE WESTERN TERRITORIES THAT HAD NOT YET JOINED THE UNION; REFLECTS COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
35 STARS, PROBABLY A CIVIL WAR CAMP COLORS, WEST VIRGINIA STATEHOOD, 1863-1865, ONE OF A TINY HANDFUL OF PRESS-DYED WOOL FLAGS WITH A RANDOM CONFIGURATION OF STARS
STEVENGRAPH RIBBON WITH AN IMAGE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CA 1901-1912
CHROME YELLOW, PAINT-DECORATED SETTEE IN AN UNUSUAL THREE-RAIL DESIGN, WITH BOLD, SHIELD-SHAPED SPINDLES, circa 1815-1840
EARLY KERCHIEF WITH IMAGE OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE "BEAR" FLAG, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1915
ORANGE, RED, AND YELLOW "SNOWFLAKE" PARCHEESI GAMEBOARD, circa 1885
BLUE & YELLOW "SNOWFLAKE" PARCHEESI GAMEBOARD, CA 1885
ORANGE PARCHEESI BOARD WITH WHIMSICAL MEDALLIONS, POLKA DOTS, & SNOWFLAKE STARS, circa 1885
LARGE, SWALLOWTAILED, SUFFRAGETTE PENNANT IN A BLACK & ORANGE COLOR COMBINATION UNIQUE TO THIS EXAMPLE, WITH APPLIED LETTERING THAT READS "VOTES FOR WOMEN” DOWN A WIDE, CENTRAL STRIPE, THIS PRECISE EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATED IN THE BEST REFERENCE ON SUFFRAGE OBJECTS, POSSIBLY WITH TIES TO NEW JERSEY; MADE circa 1912-1919
RARE SUFFRAGETTE ARMBAND IN GOLDEN YELLOW FELT, THE ONLY EXAMPLE I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THAT WAS PURPOSEFULLY SEAMED, LIKELY BY THE MAKER; GOLDEN YELLOW & BLACK FELT, MADE CIRCA 1912-20
38 STARS IN AN EXTREMELY UNUSUAL CONFIGURATION THAT BEARS A CLUSTER OF 6 SMALL STARS WITHIN A LINEAL PATTERN OF LARGER STARS, 1876-1889, COLORADO STATEHOOD
EXTREMELY RARE PILLOW COVER, WITH ROOSEVELT "TEDDY BEARS" CARRYING A LYNX, MADE TO COMMMEMORATE HIS SUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENT OF A LAND DISPUTE FOLLOWING THE YUKON / KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH
8 STARS WITH WHIMSICAL PROFILES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, MADE TO REFLECT CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES, DENOTES VIRGINIA SECESSION IN 1861, EXTREMELY SCARCE
8 STARS, CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, VIRGINIA SECESSION, VERY SCARCE, 1861
8 STARS, CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, VIRGINIA SECESSION, EXTREMELY SCARCE, 1861
8 STARS, CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, VIRGINIA SECESSION, EXTREMELY SCARCE, 1861
8 STARS, CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, VIRGINIA SECESSION, EXTREMELY SCARCE, 1861
8 STARS, CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, VIRGINIA SECESSION, EXTREMELY SCARCE, 1861
8 STARS WITH WHIMSICAL PROFILES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE WITH CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES, VIRGINIA SECESSION, 1861, EXTREMELY SCARCE
8 STARS WITH WHIMSICAL PROFILES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, MADE TO REFLECT CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES, DENOTES VIRGINIA SECESSION IN 1861, EXTREMELY SCARCE
49 STARS ON A VINTAGE, HOMEMADE AMERICAN FLAG WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE AND NUMEROUS REPAIRS FORM OBVIOUS LONG-TERM USE; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF ALASKA IN 1959; OFFICIAL FOR JUST ONE YEAR
BLUE, PAINT-DECORATED BLANKET CHEST WITH BEAUTIFULLY STYLIZED DECORATION, circa 1820-1840
LARGE AND EXCEPTIONALLY GRAPHIC BROADSIDE FROM AN ALBANY, NEW YORK NEWSPAPER, WITH GREAT VERBIAGE, ANNOUNCING THE 1864 RE-ELECTION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE ONLY COPY I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED
RARE KERCHIEF MADE FOR THE 1888 CAMPAIGN OF REPUBLICAN BENJAMIN HARRISON, WITH THE IMAGES OF A BALD EAGLE ON A NEST WITH EAGLETS
EXTREMELY LARGE STEVENSGRAPH BOOKMARK WITH AN IMAGE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, MADE IN NEW JERSEY BY THE PHOENIX MANUFACTURING COMPANY, EITHER FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA, OR THE 1893 WORLD COLUMBIAN EXPO IN CHICAGO
THE SMALLEST PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN I HAVE EVER SEEN WITH HAND-SEWN STARS AND A CANTED ANCHOR, 1876-1890
ANTIQUE PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS AND A FOULED ANCHOR, MARKED "U.S. ARMY STANDARD BUNTING", 1895-1910 ERA
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS, MARKED "U.S. ARMY STANDARD BUNTING", 1895-1910 ERA
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS, 1895-1926 ERA
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS SURROUNDING A CANTED ANCHOR, MADE BY THE ANNIN COMPANY OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY, CIRCA 1945-1950’s
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS SURROUNDING A CANTED ANCHOR, AN ATTRACTIVE, ELONGATED EXAMPLE WITH AN OFF-SET DEVICE, CIRCA 1905 – 1920
ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG (ENSIGN) WITH 13 STARS AROUND A CANTED ANCHOR, IN A VERY LARGE SCALE FOR THE FORM, MADE DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19TH CENTURY
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT FLAG, WITH HAND-SEWN, SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS AND ANCHOR, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, CA 1875-1890, A GREAT, EARLY EXAMPLE AMONG SURVIVING FLAGS IN THIS FORM
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT FLAG, A SCARCE AND DESIRABLE EXAMPLE WITH SINGLE-APPLIQUED, HAND-SEWN STARS AND ANCHOR, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, CA 1865-1890
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT FLAG, A SCARCE AND DESIRABLE EXAMPLE WITH SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD, HAND-SEWN STARS AND ANCHOR, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, CA 1875-1890's
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN, THE SMALLEST EXAMPLE THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED WITH HAND-SEWN STARS AND A CANTED ANCHOR, 1885-1895
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN, A NICE GRAPHIC EXAMPLE WITH AN ATTRACTIVE, CANTED ANCHOR, DATED 1908
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN, A NICE GRAPHIC EXAMPLE WITH AN ATTRACTIVE, CANTED ANCHOR, ca 1890-1920's
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH AN ANCHOR IN A WREATH OF STARS, WWI - WWII ERA
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN WITH A "STAR BRAND" MAKER'S LABEL, AN ELONGATED FORMAT, A PLEASANTLY SHAPED ANCHOR AND A NICE SHAD OF INDIGO BLUE, 1910-1920's ERA
13 STAR PRIVATE YACHT ENSIGN IN AN UNUSUALLY LARGE SCALE FOR THIS STYLE OF FLAG, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, 1910-1920'S ERA
WOOL HOOKED RUG WITH A BILLOWING AMERICAN FLAG AND A FORKED TAIL STREAMER WITH THE “DON’T TREAD ON ME” SLOGAN; made Circa 1880-1910; THE 5 STAR COUNT, IF PURPOSEFUL, WOULD CELEBRATE THE NUMBER OF STATES THAT AFFORDED WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE; EX-AMERICA HURRAH, ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR 1975 BOOK “HOOKED & SEWN RUGS”
WOOL HOOKED RUG WITH A BILLOWING AMERICAN FLAG AND A FORKED TAIL STREAMER WITH THE “DON’T TREAD ON ME” SLOGAN; made Circa 1880-1910; THE 5 STAR COUNT, IF PURPOSEFUL, WOULD CELEBRATE THE NUMBER OF STATES THAT AFFORDED WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE; EX-AMERICA HURRAH, ILLUSTRATED IN THEIR 1975 BOOK “HOOKED & SEWN RUGS”
WEST POINT PENNANT OF THE WWI – WWII ERA (circa 1918 – 1945), WITH GREAT COLORS & GRAPHICS
UNUSUAL, ROUND, FELT PATCH OR STEIN COASTER, WITH CRIMPED BORDER AND THE ARMS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT, circa 1920’s - 1950’s
WEST POINT WINDOW BANNER OF THE WWI – WWII ERA (1917-1945), WITH STRONG COLORS & GRAPHICS
CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION PARADE FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL "1776 - 1876", ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES, EX-RICHARD PIERCE COLLECTION
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL "1776 - 1876", ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL "1776 - 1876", ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES:
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL "1776-1876", MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 10-POINTED STARS ARRANGED TO SPELL "1776 - 1876", ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES
AMERICAN PARCHEESI BOARD IN SALMON & BLACK PAINT, WITH DUTCH STYLE PINWHEEL DECORATION, EXCEPTIONAL SURFACE, GREAT GRAPHICS, AND IMPRESSIVE SCALE, circa 1830-1850
ESPECIALLY LARGE EARLY AMERICAN MILITARY HAT PLATE, MADE OF PRESSED COPPER, WITH AN EAGLE PERCHED ON A FEDERAL SHIELD, FLANKED BY CORNUCOPIA, AND THE MOTTO “NE PLUS ULTRA” (THE ZENITH OR HIGH WATER MARK); PRESSED BRASS WITH PAINTED SURFACE, circa 1825-1850 OR POSSIBLY PRIOR
33 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 11 STRIPES, HAPHAZARD STAR PLACEMENT, AND ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE; MADE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1859-1861, OREGON STATEHOOD, PRE-CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE WAR'S OPENING YEAR
34 STARS IN A VERY RARE PATTERN THAT FEATURES A HUGE CENTER STAR IN THE MIDST OF A LINEAL STAR PATTERN, ONE-OF-A-KIND AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES, CIVIL WAR PERIOD, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
EXTRAORDINARY 34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN ACCORDION OR HOURGLASS MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT SURROUNDS A PENTAGON OF STARS IN THE CENTER; MADE OF FINE SILK AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN; MADE DURING THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR (1861-63), IN A TINY SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS OF THE PERIOD; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF KANSAS AS THE 34TH STATE
34 STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR; CIVIL WAR PERIOD, KANSAS STATEHOOD, 1861-1863
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, WITH STARS THAT ALTERNATE IN THEIR VERTICAL POSITION FROM COLUMN TO COLUMN AND ROW-TO-ROW, PRINTED ON AN ESPECIALLY INTERESTING LENGTH OF COARSE COTTON WITH A CRUDE WEAVE THAT RESULTS IN A VISUALLY COMPELLING APPEARANCE; CIVIL WAR ERA, NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-1867
TEMPERANCE / PROHIBITION PENNANT WITH WHIMSICAL TEXT THAT READS: “THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC MUST GO,” THE ANTHEM OF THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION; EXTREMELY RARE, circa 1914
RARE 1876 CENTENNIAL BANNER WITH PATRIOTIC PHRASES, AN EAGLE, CARRYING THE LIBERTY BELL AMIDST TIPPED FLAGS OF 6 NATIONS, AND 13 LARGE, RED STARS, ALL SET WITHIN A BLUE BORDER WITH 37 WHITE STARS
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, WITH GREAT FOLK CHARACTERISTICS THAT INCLUDES A NARROW, VERTICALLY-ORIENTED CANTON AND ESPECIALLY LARGE STARS, ORIENTED IN ALL DIRECTIONS, THE ARMS OF WHICH ARE NECESSARILY INTERTWINED; WYOMING STATEHOOD, 1890-1896
EARLY OHIO STATE FLAG WITH A BLUE DISC INSIDE THE BUCKEYE, circa 1902 - 1915, AN EXTREMELY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE
HAND-PAINTED BANNER WITH FLORIATED SCROLLWORK SURROUNDING A WHIMSICALLY PAINTED FEDERAL EAGLE, WITH 46 STYLIZED STARS ABOVE AND 34 STARS ON ITS 21-STRIPE SHIELDED BREAST, circa 1907-1912
SUBSTANTIAL ROSEWOOD CANE WITH A HAND-CARVED BUFFALO HEAD, CA 1940
HAND-PAINTED BANNER WITH FLORIATED SCROLLWORK SURROUNDING A WHIMSICALLY PAINTED FEDERAL EAGLE, WITH 46 STYLIZED STARS ABOVE AND 34 STARS ON ITS 21-STRIPE SHIELDED BREAST, circa 1907-1912
CONFEDERATE BIBLE FLAG IN THE FIRST NATIONAL DESIGN, WITH 13 GILT FOIL STARS, MADE OF SILK AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH ITS STARS CONFIGURED IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE SALTIRE, AND EMBROIDERED TEXT THAT READS: “GLORIE ET LIBERTE” (GLORY & LIBERTY); ACCOMPANIED BY AN 1863 LETTER, WRITTEN BY A WOMAN IN NEW ORLEANS TO A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER IN VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS ON AN ATTRACTIVE, INDIGO BLUE CANTON AND WITH BEAUTIFUL, ELONGATED PROPORTIONS, LAST DECADE 19TH CENTURY
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CIRCLE-IN-A-SQUARE CONFIGURATION AND A “Y” FORMATION OF STARS IN THE CENTER, ONE OF JUST THREE OR FOUR KNOWN EXAMPLES IN THIS STYLE; OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863, KANSAS STATEHOOD, POSSIBLY A UNION ARMY CAMP COLORS
RARE AND UNUSUAL PARADE FLAG BANNER WITH 17 STARS ON A BLUE GROUND AND THE 1866 VERSION OF THE OHIO STATE SEAL ON A GROUND OF 13 RED AND WHITE STRIPES, MADE CA 1890 -1905
RARE AND UNUSUAL PARADE FLAG BANNER WITH 17 STARS ON A BLUE GROUND AND THE 1866 VERSION OF THE OHIO STATE SEAL ON A GROUND OF 13 RED AND WHITE STRIPES, MADE CA 1890 -1905, EXHIBITED JUNE-SEPT., 2021 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
FULL, WRAP-AROUND, SILK SUFFRAGETTE SASH IN VIOLET & GREEN, WITH "VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, DESIGNED BY SYLVIA PANKHURST FOR THE WOMEN’S SOCIAL & POLITICAL UNION (U.K.), PRODUCED BY TOYE &. COMPANY OF BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1908
38 WHIMSICAL STARS, WITH 6-POINTED PROFILES, SIMILAR TO THE STAR OF DAVID, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CENTENNIAL ERA; A REMARKABLE SPECIMEN, ONE-OF-A-KIND AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES, REFLECTS COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
AMISH QUILT, SUNSHINE & SHADOWS PATTERN, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
48 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE FOR USE BY CIVIL WAR VETERANS AT THE 50-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, WITH A RELATIONSHIP TO THE STORY OF JACK SKELLY & GINNIE WADE
38 CANTED STARS IN STAGGERED ROWS, ON A CLAMP-DYED, WOOL, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE BY THE HORSTMANN BROTHERS IN PHILADELPHIA, ALMOST CERTAINLY FOR DISPLAY AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION; A VERY RARE EXAMPLE WITH STRONG COLORS AND GREAT TEXTURE; REFLECTS COLORADO STATEHOOD
"ROOSEVELT BATTLE FLAG" KERCHIEF, MADE FOR THE 1912 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, WHEN HE RAN ON THE INDEPENDENT, PROGRESSIVE PARTY TICKET, SIGNED "D&C / NY" WITH "UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD" IMAGE COPYRIGHT
CALIFORNIA BEAR FLAG VARIANT DESIGN, MADE IN 1969 FOR THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY; THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THIS TEXTILE THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 28 STARS, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF TEXAS TO THE UNION AS THE 28TH STATE IN 1845; ONE OF THE RAREST STAR COUNTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, OFFICIAL FOR JUST ONE YEAR (1845-46), MEXICAN WAR ERA
LATE 19TH CENTURY PILOT HOUSE EAGLE, FOUND IN WISCONSIN, FINISHED BY THE CARVER BUT NEVER SOLD, ca 1880
38 STARS IN A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL VARIATION OF THE "GREAT STAR" PATTERN, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
RARE COLLAPSIBLE DRINKING CUP MADE FOR THE EMPIRE STATE (NEW YORK) CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE, ORGANIZED BY CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, 1915
PAINTED, CENTRE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA BLANKET CHEST IN SALMON AND BLACK WITH FLORAL DECORATION, 3 DRAWERS, AND APPLIED, SPLAY FEET, circa 1815-1825
MAHANTNGO VALLEY PENNSYLVANIA BLANKET CHEST WITH UNICORNS
FOLK PAINTING, IN OIL ON WOODEN PANEL, OF THE PADDLEWHEEL STEAMER "GREY EAGLE" BEFORE THE TOWNSCAPE OF ALTON, ILLINOIS, AT THE CONVERGENCE OF THE ILLINOIS & MISSISSIPPI RIVERS, circa 1865-1888
34 STARS ON A HOMEMADE ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON AND A VERY INTERESTING CONFIGURATION THAT SUBTLY INCORPORATES THE CROSSES OF ST. ANDREW AND ST. GEORGE, REFLECTS KANSAS STATEHOOD, 1861-63
DIMINUTIVE, BLACK & WHITE BARBER POLE WITH ACORN FINIALS AND EXCEPTIONAL, EARLY SURFACE, CIRCA 1840-1860
CONFEDERATE SOUTHERN CROSS “BATTLE FLAG”, OF THE REUNION ERA, MADE ENTIRELY OF SILK, WITH A SILK FRINGE, CIRCA 1895-1920
UNUSUAL CONFEDERATE FLAG IN THE THIRD NATIONAL FORMAT, PRINTED ON HEAVY WEIGHT PARCHMENT, PROBABLY PRODUCED BETWEEN 1884 AND 1910, IN THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF THE UDC AND THE UCV
FIRST NATIONAL PATTERN CONFEDERATE FLAG WITH 13 STARS TO INCLUDE MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY SECESSION, MADE ENTIRELY OF SILK, WITH SILK FRINGE AND TIES, A REUNION ERA EXAMPLE, CIRCA 1895-1920
15-STAR CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG OF GENERAL LLOYD TILGHMAN, WHO LED THE 3RD KENTUCKY INFANTRY, CO. D; CAPTURED & EXCHANGED FOR UNION GENERAL JOHN REYNOLDS IN 1862; DEFEATED GRANT AT COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS WITH RELEASED PRISONERS; KILLED AT VICKSBURG IN 1863, WHEN STRUCK IN THE CHEST BY A CANNONBALL; ONE OF ONLY FOUR FLAGS KNOWN IN THIS RARE STAR COUNT ACROSS ALL EXAMPLES; THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SOUTHERN CROSS BATTLE FLAG I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED IN PRIVATE HANDS
EXTREMELY RARE U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 13 STARS, A REVERSAL OF THE U.S. NAVY COLOR SCHEME, 24 FEET ON THE FLY, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR – WWI ERA (1898-1918) N THE FLY, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - WWI ERA (1898-1917)
44 STARS IN JUSTIFIED ROWS, WITH VARIED STAR POSITIONING, ON A SILK, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH STRIKING COLORS, REFLECTS WYOMING STATEHOOD, circa 1890-1896
42 HAND-SEWN STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DUSTY BLUE CANTON; AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890
GRAPHIC AND COLORFUL, PORTRAIT STYLE KERCHIEF MADE FOR THE 1848 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF ZACHARY TAYLOR, WITH PORTRAITS OF FOUR OTHER MEXICAN WAR OFFICERS AND A WAVING 30 STAR FLAG
42 STARS IN A WHIMSICAL MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR AND INCORPORATES 7 TINY STARS; NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, EXCEPTIONALLY RARE, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, circa 1889-1890
48 STARS ON A CROCHETED AMERICAN FLAG, PROBABLY MADE IN THE PATRIOTISM OF WWII (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1941-1945), A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, WITH LARGE, WELL-EXECUTED STARS AND STRIKING COLORS
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A BEAUTIFUL MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE, MADE CIRCA 1895-1926
31 STARS IN A GREAT STAR PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE DURING THE PERIOD OF CALIFORNIA STATEHOOD (1850-1858), WITH APPLIQUÉD TEXT ADDED TO CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1858, THE PRECISE DAY THAT A 32nd STAR WAS OFFICIALLY ADDED FOR MINNESOTA; A MAKE-DO EXAMPLE WITH RIBBON AS STRIPES & EXCEPTIONAL FOLK QUALITIES, CLOSELY RELATED TO FLAGS FOUND IN THE FORMER MAINE HOME OF CPL. JOHN WILLIAM MORIN, WHO FOUGHT WITH THE 20th MAINE REGIMENT UNDER COL. JOSHUA CHAMBERLIN AT GETTYSBURG
38 HAND-SEWN STARS IN A "NOTCHED" PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE AT THE TIME WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
CONFEDERATE BIBLE FLAG WITH 13 SIX-POINTED STARS AND ITS BAR COLORS REVERSED, 1861-65
CONFEDERATE FIRST NATIONAL (STARS & BARS) PATTERN BIBLE FLAG WITH 8 EMBROIDERED STARS, LIKELY TO REFLECT VIRGINIA SECESSION IN APRIL OR MAY OF 1861, AND EXTRAORDINARY VISUAL PRESENCE; FOUND AMONG THE EFFECTS OF ALFRED BELLARD OF THE 5TH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS:
LARGE FORMAT, CONFEDERATE 1ST NATIONAL (STARS & BARS) BIBLE FLAG WITH 14 EMBROIDERED SILK STARS
VERY RARE CONFEDERATE BIBLE FLAG IN THE 2nd NATIONAL (STAINLESS BANNER) FORMAT
CONFEDERATE BIBLE FLAG CAPTURED BY MATTHEW ROBERTSON OF THE 13TH INDIANA INFANTRY AT THE BATTLE OF RICH MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA (NOW WEST VIRGINIA) IN JULY OF 1861, WITH LOOM-WOVEN STARS AND SILK RIBBON STRIPES; AN EXCEPTIONAL EXAMPLE
CONFEDERATE 1ST NATIONAL BIBLE FLAG, UNUSUALLY LARGE SIZE, FOIL STARS, CAPT. JOHN BLAIR HOGE, 1ST VA CAVALRY
38 HAND-SEWN STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG IN AN EXTRAORDINARILY TINY SCALE AMONG ITS PIECED-AND-SEWN COUNTERPARTS, MADE AT THE TIME WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889; PROBABLY MADE BY THE ANNIN COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY, SIGNED BY MEMBERS OF THE GRIMES & JOHNSON FAMILIES OF CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890
SUBSTANTIAL AND EXTRAORDINARY, 19TH CENTURY, HAND-MADE GATE FROM THE JOSHUA PECKHAM RESIDENCE AT 116-118 BROADWAY, NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND, circa 1877-1879
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A NOTCHED CONFIGURATION, MADE BY THE U.S. BUNTING COMPANY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, REFLECTS THE ERA OF COLORADO STATEHOOD, circa 1876-1889
34 STARS IN A LINEAL ARRANGEMENT THAT RESULTS IN A CONFIGURATION THAT I HAVE TERMED "GLOBAL ROWS," ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE DURING THE OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, WITH A CIRCULAR ARRANGEMENT OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN, ON A SMALL SCALE EXAMPLE WITH BEAUTIFUL, ELONGATED PROPORTIONS AND AN UNUSUALLY LARGE CENTER STAR, MADE CIRCA 1890-1900
34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-63), IN A TINY SCALE AMONG PIECED-AND-SEWN FLAGS OF THE PERIOD, WITH A TRIPLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION, AN ELONGATED FORMAT, AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN; FOUND WITH A LETTER FROM JOHN W. RUDE OF THE 2ND KENTUCKY VETERAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY (UNION)
SILK SUFFRAGETTE RIBBON WITH “VOTES FOR WOMEN" TEXT, 1910-1919
6 GALLON STONEWARE CROCK WITH BLUE SLIP GAME BIRD DECORATION, MADE IN ROCHESTER, NEW YORK BY JOHN BURGER, circa 1854-1867
EXCEPTIONAL SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT, WITH 13 STARS, CROSSED FLAGS, AND A FEDERAL EAGLE, PERCHED FOR FLIGHT, ON A PATRIOTIC SHIELD; SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER AND MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN WHAT IS TYPICALLY ENCOUNTERED, circa 1885-1910
MEXICAN / MEXICO FELT PENNANT WITH BEAUTIFUL, SATURATED COLORS AND DESIGN, CA 1915
STATE FLAG OF NORTH CAROLINA, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY, PRESENTED TO A CHAPTER OF THE COLONIAL DAMES IN 1921, PROBABLY COMMISSIONED IN THAT YEAR
YELLOW SUFFRAGETTE SASH RIBBON MADE FOR CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT'S "WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY" OF NEW YORK CITY, CA 1912-20
BEADED, NATIVE AMERICAN BANDOLIER BAG, WITH GEOMETRIC AND FLORAL DESIGNS, CHIPPEWA OR WINNEBAGO INDIAN NATION, circa 1880
BEADED NATIVE AMERICAN BANDOLIER BAG, GREAT LAKES OR WOODLANDS, circa 1880
CANADIAN RED ENSIGN WITH A COMPOSITE SHILED THAT FEATURES 7 PROVINCES, IN USE FROM APPROXIMATELY 1873 – 1896; ONE OF THE EARIEST VERSIONS, APPEARING JUST 5 YEARS AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BASIC DESIGN; HIGHLY UNUSUAL WITH THE DEVICE ON A WHITE RECTANGULAR PANEL
HOMEMADE, 13 STAR, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 STAR CONFIGURATION AND EXTREMELY UNUSUAL CONSTRUCTION, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
44 TUMBLING STARS IN AN HOURGLASS PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A STRIKING, BRIGHT BLUE CANTON AND SCARLET STRIPES, REFLECTS WYOMING STATEHOOD, circa 1890-1896
PRO-UNION CIVIL WAR BROADSIDE WITH SPECTACULAR GRAPHICS THAT INCLUDE A LARGE IMAGE OF WASHINGTON INSIDE A STAR-SHAPED MEDALLION WITH 34 STARS, PHILADELPHIA, 1861-1863
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE BETWEEN THE 1876 CENTENNIAL AND THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19TH CENTURY, WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION AND IN AN UNUSUALLY LARGE SCALE FOR THE TIME PERIOD AMONG FLAGS IN THIS STAR COUNT
HAND-PAINTED AND GILDED, SILK FIRE HOUSE BANNER, COMMISSIONED BY THE WEST SIDE HOSE COMPANY OF STEELTON [HARRISBURG], PENNSLVANIA TO CELEBRATE THE HOUSING OF THEIR NEW CHEMICAL & HOSE CARRIAGE ON AUGUST 28TH, 1904; AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE OBJECT IN FIRE COLLECTING
46 STAR, SLIK, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, WITH STARS IN CANTED ROWS, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF OKLAHOMA TO THE UNION DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 1907-1912
38 STARS IN A TRIPLE WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, WITH 2 OUTLIERS, ON ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH BEAUTIFUL COLOR, MADE IN THE ERA WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH JUSTIFIED ROWS OF 7-6-6-6-6-7 AND SCATTERED STAR ORIENTATION, MADE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE IN JUNE OF 1943, DURING WWII, AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS LONG-TERM USE
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, 38 STAR, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE INDIAN WARS PERIOD, WITH A SQUARISH PROFILE AND A CANTON THAT IS TALLER THAN IT IS WIDE, SIMILAR TO U.S. INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY BATTLE FLAGS, AND WITH AN ESPECIALLY GRAPHIC PRESENTATIONOF STARS; MADE IN THE ERA WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
EXTRAORDINARILY EARLY (1806) PRINTED LINEN KERCHIEF GLORIFYING GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRINT WORKS, GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA; EXHIBITED JANUARY – AUGUST, 2023 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
13 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, IN AN UNUSUALLY LARGE SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS
31 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ELONGATED, HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A VERTICALLY-ORIENTED CANTON AND EXCEPTIONAL FOLK QUALITIES, PRE-CIVIL WAR, CALIFORNIA STATEHOOD, 1850-1858
15 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE EITHER TO CELEBRATE KENTUCKY STATEHOOD, OR TO GLORIFY THE SOUTH, 1861-1865, A VERY RARE EXAMPLE WITH GREAT FOLK QUALITIES
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS, AN EXTREMELY SCARCE AND UNUSUALLY LARGE VARIETY, MADE circa 1876-1899
EARLY BOHEMIAN MILK GLASS MUG WITH PATRIOTIC AMERICAN IMAGERY THAT INCLUDES AN EAGLE, 16 STARS, AND THE CAPTION “LIBERTY”, circa 1796-1803
13 STARS IN A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, A UNITED STATES NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, MADE AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, NEW YORK, SIGNED & DATED 1898
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD FLAG, AN EXTREMELY SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL, NAUTICAL DESIGN, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) AND 1934
SALTILLO SERAPE, MADE circa 1885-1910, IN THE VARY RARE FORM OF THE MEXICAN NATIONAL FLAG; ACQUIRED IN MEXICO BY TEXTILE MANUFACTURING MOGUL AND BANKER, A.L. WILLISTON (1834-1915) AND HIS WIFE, SARAH (1839-1912), OF NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS
13 STARS IN THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, ON A VINTAGE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE BY THE ANNIN COMPANY OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY, circa 1955 - 1965
36 STARS IN A RARE “GREAT STAR-IN-A-WREATH” PATTERN, WITH 2 OUTLIERS IN EACH CORNER AND A BIG CENTER STAR, ONE OF THE BEST DESIGNS IN ALL OF FLAG COLLECTING, 1864-1867, NEVADA STATEHOOD, CIVIL WAR ERA, FOUND AT NORMANDY FARM, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH A TRIPLE WREATH FORM OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, RARE IN THIS PERIOD WITH A CIRCULAR STAR ARRANGEMENT, 1890-1896, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WYOMING TO THE UNION
“NO. 6” U.S. NAVY COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 7 STARS, MADE SOMETIME DURING THE WWI - WWII ERA (1917-1945)
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN EXTREMELY RARE DOUBLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A SQUARE OF FOUR STARS BOTH INSIDE AND OUT, ON A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANON THAT RESTS ON THE BLOOD STRIPE, HAVING A WIDE, OXBLOOD RED HOIST AND STRIPES OF THE SAME UNUSUAL COLOR; A STRIKING, HOMEMADE FLAG, FOUND IN WEST VIRGINIA AND WITH VERBAL HISTORY AS TO HAVING BEEN MADE THERE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD OF COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
SILK CAMPAIGN KERCHIEF FEATURING A PROMINENT BULL MOOSE, MADE FOR THE 1912 PRESIDENTIAL RUN OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, WHEN HE RAN ON THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY TICKET
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PATRIOTIC POSTER ENTITLED “WE THE PEOPLE,” BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952), PRODUCED IN 1937 FOR THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, SIGNED BY SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD, THE LONGEST SERVING MEMBER OF CONGRESS
CARVED EAGLE FROM THE SHOP OF JOHN HALEY BELLAMY, THE MOST RENOWNED CARVER OF THE FORM, THIS EXAMPLE IN A DIMINUTIVE SCALE, WITH WONDERFUL, DARK PATINA, circa 1875-1910
EXTRAORDINARY WWII LIBERATION FLAG WITH 48 SAWTOOTH STARS, THEIR NUMBER OF POINTS VARYING FROM 11 TO 16, AND A COMPLEMENT OF 10 STRIPES; MADE TO WELCOME U.S. TROOPS IN FRANCE IN 1944, FOLLOWING LIBERATION FROM THE GERMANS; AMONG THE BEST OF ITS KIND KNOWN TO EXIST; FOUND IN A PARIS ATTIC
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PATRIOTIC POSTER ENTITLED “WE THE PEOPLE,” BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY (1873-1952), PRODUCED IN 1937 FOR THE 150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, SIGNED BY SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD, THE LONGEST SERVING MEMBER OF CONGRESS
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE “GREAT-STAR-IN-A-WREATH” CONFIGURATION AND ENDEARING WEAR FROM OBVIOUS LONG-TERM USE, 1876-1889, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF COLORADO TO THE UNION
BOLDLY GRAPHIC AND UNUSUAL STARS & STRIPES PENNANT FROM THE ‘MARCH ON WASHINGTON’ OF AUGUST 28TH, 1963, WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING DELIVERED HIS HISTORIC "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH
RARE & EXTRAORDINARY STARS & STRIPES PENNANT FROM THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING DELIVERED HIS HISTORIC "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH
RARE FELT PENNANT FROM THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING DELIVERED HIS HISTORIC "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH
NEW ENGLAND BLANKET CHEST, PROBABLY OF MAINE ORIGIN, WITH SCALLOPED FEET AND SKIRT, PAINTED IN A TRANSLUCENT, OCHRE WHITE, WITH WONDERFUL, EARLY SURFACE, circa 1790-1820
EXCEPTIONAL, CARVED WOODEN CANE IN THE FORM OF A THORNED TWIG, WITH TWO, SPOTTED, GREEN SNAKES TWISTING UP IT, AMERICAN, circa 1870
NARROW PROFILE TALL CASE CLOCK, WITH WORKS ATTRIBUTED TO CINCINNATI CLOCK-MAKER LUMMAN WATSON, BEAUTIFULLY COMB-DECORATED IN RED OVER BLACK, WITH AN EXTREMELY UNUSUAL BASE THAT FEATURES A WHIMSICALLY INVERTED TAPER, POSSIBLY OF KENTUCKY OR TENNESSEE ORIGIN, circa 1810-1834
EXCEPTIONALLY EARLY AND EXPERTLY DEVELOPED CARVING OF AN EAGLE, PERCHED ON A BED OF CLOUDS, EBONIZED & GILDED, AMERICAN FEDERAL PERIOD, circa 1785-1820
48 STAR FLAG OF THE WWII ERA, WITH ATTRACTIVE WEAR FROM BEING EXTENSIVELY FLOWN, MADE BY THE ANNIN COMPANY OF NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY
MERINO SHEEP WEATHERVANE, THE VERY BEST OF ITS KIND AND WITH PERHAPS THE BEST SURFACE THAT EXISTS ON SURVIVING EXAMPLES, ATTRIBUTED TO A.J. HARRIS & CO., BOSTON, circa 1875
SPECTACULAR 1984 RONALD REAGAN vs. WALTER MONDALE DEBATE POSTER, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
MASSIVE & COLORFUL CIVIL WAR RECRUITMENT BROADSIDE FOR THE "MANHATTAN RIFLES,” WHICH MUSTERED INTO 43RD AND THE 57TH NEW YORK INFANTRY DIVISIONS IN THE WAR'S OPENING YEAR, EASILY AMONG THE ABSOLUTE BEST OF ITS KIND, 1861
BRITISH UNION FLAG OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, WITH BRILIANT AND UNUSUAL, COBALT BLUE COLORATION, AND A SIMPLIFIED, FOLK STYLE, WITH INCORRECT PROPORTIONS IN THE CROSSES OF ST. ANDREW & SAINT PATRICK, circa 1918-1952
15 STAR, 13 STRIPE FLAG WITH 7-POINTED STARS AND ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE, MADE DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA BY SCHOOLGIRLS FOR JOHN BROWN, JR. (1847-1932), SON OF THE FAMOUS WESTERN PIONEER AND 49’ER, JOHN BROWN, SR. (1817-1899), GUIDE TO JOHN FREMONT & COMPANION OF KIT CARSON
38 STARS IN A RARE AND STRIKING CIRCLE-IN-A-SQUARE MEDALLION, WITH AN ENORMOUS CENTER STAR, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION BY HORSTMANN BROTHERS OF PHILADELPHIA, A MAJOR MILITARY OUTFITTER
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN 8-7-8-7-8 PATTERN OF JUSTIFIED ROWS, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
31 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE PRE-CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT FEATURES A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1850-1858
36 STAR FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA WITH AN EXTREMELY SCARCE STAR CONFIGURATION THAT DISPLAYS A “U” FOR UNION, NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-1867
STANDARD OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL U.S. NAVY, BETTER KNOWN AS THE "GADSDEN FLAG," CIRCA 19-TEENS – 1940’s
RARE CAST IRON BUILDING FENDERS/ CARRIAGE GUIDES IN THE FORM OF HORSE HOOVES, ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM ADAMS, PHILADELPHIA, CA 1870-90
RARE PAIR OF VIKING STYLE, FIREMAN’S AXE PARADE TORCHES WITH EARLY, BLACK-PAINTED SURFACE, circa 1876-1880’s
MASTERPIECE QUALITY SCHERENSCHNITTE, IN THE STYLE OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC STIEHLY, WITH A PATRIOTIC EAGLE AND REFERENCE TO THE 1844 NEW YORK MAYORAL ELECTION OF PUBLISHING MAGNATE JAMES HARPER
MASTERPIECE QUALITY SCHERENSCHNITTE, IN THE STYLE OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO ISAAC STIEHLY, WITH A PATRIOTIC EAGLE AND REFERENCE TO THE 1844 NEW YORK MAYORAL ELECTION OF PUBLISHING MAGNATE JAMES HARPER
EXTRAORDINARY KERCHIEF COMMEMORATING THE RETURN OF LAFAYETTE TO THE UNITED STATES IN 1824, PRESENTLY ONE-OF-A-KIND AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES, ATTRIBUTED TO SCOTTISH-AMERICAN TEXTILE MANUFACTURER COLIN GILLESPIE
29 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, MEXICAN WAR ERA, 1846-48; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF IOWA AS THE 29TH STATE
“THE MAN WITH A HEART, THE PARTY WITH A SOUL”: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT POSTER, MADE FOR HIS 1936 PRESIDENTIAL RUN, THE BEST OF ALL KNOWN EXAMPLES ACROSS ALL FOUR OF THE FDR CAMPAIGNS, EXTREMELY RARE AND WITH WHAT IS PERHAPS THE BEST SLOGAN IN 19TH OR 20TH AMERICAN POLITICS
JAPANESE-MADE PARADE FLAG IN THE RISING SUN FORMAT, THAT SERVED AS THE WAR FLAG OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY FROM 1889-1945, MADE DURING AMERICAN OCCUPATION (1945-1952)
EXTRAORDINARILY RARE ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A TWO-COLOR IMAGE IN THE CANTON THAT CONSISTS OF A TREMENDOUS, WARLIKE EAGLE, PERCHED ON A FEDERAL SHIELD, SET WITHIN A RING OF STARS; MADE IN THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-65), THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE IN THIS STYLE AND THE LARGEST OF ALL KNOWN RECORDED PARADE FLAGS WITH AN EAGLE AS THE PRIMARY IMAGE
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY SMALL SCALE AMONG ITS PIECED-AND-SEWN COUNTERPARTS, REFLECTS WYOMING STATEHOOD, 1890-1896
STEVENSGRAPH BOOKMARK / RIBBON WITH TEXT MOURNING THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS PORTRAIT, MADE BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS BY WHICH THESE WERE PRODUCED, circa 1865-1876
7 STAR, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, U.S. NAVY COMMISSION PENNANT OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, THE SMALLEST, MID-19TH CENTURY EXAMPLE I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED, AND THE ONLY PRE-1900 EXAMPLE THAT I KNOW OF IN THIS STAR COUNT, circa 1861-1865
GRAPHIC BANNER WELCOMING JOHN F. KENNEDY AS JUNIOR SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS, WITH NEIGHING DEMOCRAT DONKEY AND GLITTERED LETTERING, 1953-1960, SINGULAR AMONG KNOWN OBJECTS; SAID TO HAVE BEEN HUNG FROM A BRIDGE IN TROY, NEW YORK, TO WELCOME HIM TO THE CITY, DURING HIS 1960 CAMPAIGN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
EXHUBERANTLY PAINTED, NEW ENGLAND TALL CASE CLOCK IN DARK UMBER, RED, & CHROME YELLOW DECORATION, WITH WOODEN WORKS BY RILEY WHITING, PLYMOUTH, CONNECTICUT, CA 1819-1835
44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, WITH AN EXTREMELY RARE LINEAL ARRANGEMENT OF STARS IN ROWS OF 9-9-9-9-8, A ROPE HOIST, AN ELONGATED OVERALL PROFILE, AND AN ELONGATED CANTON; REFLECTS WYOMING STATEHOOD, 1890-1896
36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH CANTED STARS IN DANCING ROWS, ON A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON; CIVIL WAR ERA, NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-1867
34 STARS IN A "GREAT STAR" PATTERN ON A BRILLIANT, ROYAL BLUE CANTON, OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD
CARVED EAGLE FROM THE SHOP OF JOHN HALEY BELLAMY, UNUSUAL IN GREY PAINT, WITH ELONGATED FORMAT AND HIS TRADITIONAL “DON’T GIVE UP THE SHIP” STREAMER, CIRCA 1890-1905
CARVED EAGLE WITH ELONGATED FORMAT, FROM THE SHOP OF JOHN HALEY BELLAMY, THE MOST REKNOWNED CARVER OF THE FORM, CIRCA 1875-1890’s
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN OFF-BALANCE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, ON A BRILLIANT BLUE CANTON, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890
38 STARS IN A RARE CIRCLE-IN-A-SQUARE MEDALLION WITH A HUGE CENTER STAR, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE BY HORSTMANN BROS. IN PHILADELPHIA FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF COLORADO TO THE UNION
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH SCATTERED STAR POSITIONING MADE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
38 STARS IN A CIRCLE-IN-A-SQUARE MEDALLION, WITH A HUGE CENTER STAR, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH INCREDIBLE GRAPHICS AND COLORS; MADE FOR THE CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE IN 1876, TO REFLECT THE ADDITION OF COLORADO TO THE UNION AS THE 38TH STATE; ONE OF JUST A TINY HANDFUL OF VERY RARE FLAGS KNOWN TO EXIST IN THIS EXACT STYLE
7 STARS IN A RARE HEXAGON MEDALLION, REFLECTS THE THE FIRST 7 STATES TO APPROVE THE PROVISIONAL CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION, IN THE INITIAL WAVE OF SECESSION; THE 7TH OF THESE WAS TEXAS; A WAR-PERIOD EXAMPLE, CIRCA 1861
“NO. 6” U.S. NAVY COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 7 STARS, MADE SOMETIME DURING THE WWI - WWII ERA (1917-1945), WITH ENDEARING WEAR
38 STARS IN A TRIPLE WREATH STYLE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, WITH 2 OUTLIERS, ON A LARGE SCALE ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH GREAT COLORS AND PRESENCE, MADE IN THE ERA WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
FRENCH-DESIGNED AMERICAN FLAG, WOVEN SILK WITH TEXT ON BOTH SIDES, PRODUCED FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; LIKELY MADE IN PHILADELPHIA AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
NATIVE AMERICAN “GOOD LUCK” HORSESHOE BEADWORK WHIMSEY, DATED 1909, IROQUOIS, UPSTATE, NEW YORK
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL 38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, AN INDIAN WARS PERIOD FLANK GUIDON OF THE 4th U.S. INFANTRY, WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION SURROUNDING THE NUMERAL “4,” AND EXTRAORDINARY PRESENTATION FROM LEGITIMATE USE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1876-1889
46 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH VARIED STAR POSITIONING, 1907-1912, REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN OKLAHOMA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION
EXCEPTIONAL BUTCHER BLOCK IN BLACK PAINT, WITH GREAT, ROUND, BARRELL-SHAPED FORM, MISSOURI ORIGIN, 1850-1890
CALIFORNIA "BEAR" FLAG, MADE IN OR AROUND THE TIME THAT THE DESIGN WAS OFFICIALLY ADOPTED AS THE CALIFORNIA STATE FLAG, in 1911, OR POSSIBLY PRIOR, SIGNED “SADLER”, circa 1899-1915
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, 13 STAR, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 4-5-4 PATTERN, PROBABLY A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, WITH THE CURIOUS INSCRIPTION OF “GETTYSBURG” ALONG THE HOIST, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN THE 1850’s AND THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, circa 1854-1863
EXCEPTIONAL, CIVIL WAR ERA EXAMPLE OF THE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, THAT BECAME THE TEXAS STATE FLAG; PROBABLY CARRIED AS A MILITARY GUIDON OR CAMP COLORS; ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN; IN A TINY SCALE AMONG SEWN FLAGS OF THE PERIOD, circa 1861-1865
EARLY OHIO STATE FLAG WITH A BLUE DISC INSIDE THE BUCKEYE, AN EXTREMELY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, MADE IN THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE PERIOD, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING ITS DESIGN BY CLEVELAND ARCHITECT JOHN EISENMANN AND ACCEPTANCE BY THE OHIO STATE LEGISLATURE, CA 1902 - 1915
SANTEE SIOUX, QUILL-DECORATED TOBACCO BAG, ca 1880
EXCEPTIONAL THREE-SHEET BROADSIDE FOR HUNT BROS. CIRCUS & WILD WEST SHOW, circa 1900-1910
31 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH ITS STARS CONFIGURED IN A MEDALLION PATTERN THAT FEATURES A LARGE, HALOED CENTER STAR; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN CALIFORNIA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1850-1858
BRITISH UNION FLAG ("UNION JACK") OF THE 19-TEENS – THE 1930’s, MADE OF COTTON BUNTING, VERY UNUSUAL WITH A BLUE HOIST BINDING
RARE AND EARLY YARD GOODS TEXTILE, MADE FOR THE 1829 INAUGURATION OF ANDREW JACKSON, ROLLER PRINTED IN A STRIKING SHADE OF CORNFLOWER BLUE
38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A STARBURST CROSS ARRANGEMENT ON A PRUSSIAN BLUE CANTON, ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC CONFIGURATIONS THAT EXISTS IN FLAG COLLECTING, COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
16 SIX-POINTED STARS ON A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, AND A COMPLEMENT OF 13 STRIPES, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE OF POLISHED COTTON, LIKELY DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19TH CENTURY, TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENNIAL OF TENNESSEE STATEHOOD (1796-1896)
RARE AND EARLY YARD GOODS TEXTILE, MADE FOR THE 1829 INAUGRATION OF ANDREW JACKSON
31 STAR PARADE FLAG, MADE FOR THE 1860 CAMPAIGN OF JOHN BELL & EDWARD EVERETT, WITH A “UNION AND THE CONSTITUTION” SLOGAN, PROBABLY MADE BY H.C. HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, 13 STAR AMERICAN FLAG, WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 ARRANGEMENT OF STARS, U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, LIKELY MADE DURING THE CLOSING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1864-1865
PATRIOTIC, PAINT-DECORATED BASE DRUM, WITH EXTRAORDINARY COLOR AND BOLD IMAGERY THAT INCLUDES AN EAGLE AND CROSSED FLAGS; FROM THE GENESEO CORONET BAND [LATER C.C.G. CORONET BAND], ACTIVE AT LEAST 1862 – 1901
ELABORATE SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT WITH A BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED IMAGE OF WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE, SURROUNDED BY A LARGE EAGLE, FEDERAL SHIELD, CROSSED FLAGS, A CANNON, CANNONBALLS, AND ANCHOR, circa 1885-1910
HAND-PAINTED PATRIOTIC BANNER WITH THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND SPECTACULAR PRESENTATION, WITH GREAT FOLK QUALITIES, PROBABLY MADE FOR THE 1868 DEMOCRAT NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK CITY
13 STARS IN THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, ON A WOOL, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF THE TIME, MADE FOR THE D.A.R. IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN APPROX. 1905 AND 1926, POSSIBLY FOR THE SESQUCENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPEMNDENCE
UNUSUAL AND GRAPHIC, RED BANDANNA-STYLE PARADE FLAG FROM TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S 1912 “BULL MOOSE CAMPAIGN”
VERY SCARCE WWI SON-IN-SERVICE BANNER FOR A COMMISSIONED, U.S. NAVY OFFICER
ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH 36 SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS, REFLECTS NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-1867, TINY IN SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY
CAST BRASS OR BRONZE FIREHOUSE EAGLE WITH GREAT FORM, SURFACE, AND A GREAT SLOGAN, AMERICAN, circa 1850-1880
CAST BRASS OR BRONZE FIREHOUSE EAGLE WITH GREAT FORM, SURFACE, AND A GREAT SLOGAN, AMERICAN, circa 1850-1880
AMERICAN HOOKED RUG WITH A LARGE RED STAR AND A PATRIOTIC COLOR SCHEME, LIKELY OF PENNSYLVANIA ORIGIN, circa 1860-1880’s
STATE OF MAINE BLANKET CHEST WITH SCALLOPED FEET AND EXUBERANT PAINT DECORATION IN TOMATO RED ON A CHROME YELLOW GROUND. CIRCA 1820-1840
42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890
CANADIAN NATIONAL FLAG WITH A COMPOSITE SHIELD THAT FEATURES 7 PROVINCES, circa 1873-1905
EXTRAORDINARY CANTON FROM A BRITISH BLUE ENSIGN OF THE MID-19TH CENTURY, WITH OPPOSING, CONCAVE BARS TO REFLECT THE CROSSES OF ST. ANDREW AND ST. PETER, INSTEAD OF THE PROPER, OFFSET SALTIRES, circa 1850-1860’s
THE EARLIEST FLAG OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED, MADE DURING THE MONARCHY, WITHIN THE PERIOD OF BRITISH PROTECTORATE, PRODUCED BY HORSTMANN & BROTHERS COMPANY IN PHILADELPHIA FOR DISPLAY AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION