 EXTRAORDINARILY RARE ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A THREE-COLOR CANTON THAT CONSISTS OF A TREMENDOUS, WARLIKE EAGLE, PERCHED ON A FEDERAL SHIELD, SET WITHIN A RING OF 14 STARS; MADE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE MEXICAN AND CIVIL WARS (1846 – 1865) 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
 13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1861-1865), HOMEMADE AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE WAR STRIPE, AND WITH 9 STRIPES TO REFLECT THE OMISSION OF NORTH & SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND VIRGINIA, THE 4 SLAVE STATES AMONG THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES THAT SECEDED FROM THE UNION
 ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE FOR THE 1860 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN & HANNIBAL HAMLIN, WITH 31 STARS IN A FANCIFUL STARBURST OR ‘GREAT STAR-IN-A-SQUARE’ MEDALLION; ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL CONFIGURATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN 19TH CENTURY EXAMPLES; THE ONLY KNOWN LINCOLN CAMPAIGN FLAG IN THIS STYLE, AND ONE OF JUST 3 PARADE FLAGS OF ANY SORT THAT SHARE THIS SPECTACULAR STAR ARRANGEMENT
 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
 VINTAGE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, THAT BECAME THE TEXAS STATE FLAG, MADE BY DECORATORS, INC. OF BRAZIL, INDIANA, [LATER KNOWN AS THE “OLD GLORY DECORATING COMPANY”], MOST LIKELY FOR THE 1936 CENTENNIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION, OR FOR THE 1945 CENTENNIAL OF TEXAS STATEHOOD
 POWER SQUADRONS ENSIGN, MADE BY ANNIN IN NEW YORK CITY or NEW JERSEY, circa 1914-WWII ERA
 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
 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)
 34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE DURING THE OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863, WITH AN UNUSUALLY ELONGATED FORMAT, A SQUARE CANTON WITH AN ATTRACTIVE SHADE OF BLUE, LARGE, MAKE-DO TASSELS, AND WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON A RED STRIPE – SOMETIMES TERMED THE ‘BLOOD’ OR THE ‘WAR’ STRIPE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN KANSAS WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION
 48 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE 1912-1918 ERA, LIKELY A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, PRODUCED FOR U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN WWI (1917-18); THE EARLIEST IDENTIFIED EXAMPLE OF ANY KIND FROM PROMINENT U.S. FLAG-MAKER JOHN C. DETTRA, THE FIRM OF WHICH PRACTICALLY NEVER SIGNED FLAGS UNTIL POST-WWII (1945 & AFTER)
 WEST POINT PENNANT WITH STRIKING COLOR & GRAPHICS, WWII ERA - 1950's
 VERY RARE CONFEDERATE NAVAL ENSIGN IN THE FIRST NATIONAL (STARS & BARS) PATTERN, IN AN EXTRAORDINARY, SMALL SIZE, WITH 11 WHIMSICAL, SINGLE-APPLIQUÉD STARS AND A CURIOUSLY WIDE RED BAR, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, MADE BETWEEN MAY - NOVEMBER OF 1861:
 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
 48 STAR U.S. NAVY JACK, MADE AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, DURING WWII, DATED 1944
 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
 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
 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
 34 STARS ARRANGED IN A BEAUTIFUL RENDITION OF THE MEDALLION CONFIGURATION WITH OFFSET WREATHS AND A LARGE CENTER STAR, MADE DURING THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863, AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, REFLECTS KANSAS STATEHOOD
 ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 37 STARS ON A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, ARRANGED IN A UNIQUE “GREAT STAR” OR “GREAT LUMINARY” CONFIGURATION, INCORPORATED INTO A RECTANGULAR MEDALLION; A HOMEMADE EXAMPLE, MADE DURING THE ERA OF AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION; REFLECTS NEBRASKA STATEHOOD, 1867-1876
 ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN FLAG MADE BY SARAH McFADDEN, “THE BETSY ROSS OF NEW YORK,” FOR THE HUDSON RIVER STEAMSHIP “DELAWARE,” LAUNCHED IN 1852, WHICH SAW A REMARKABLE HISTORY; CONSCRIPTED INTO FEDERAL SERVICE BY THE U.S. NAVY TO BECOME A CIVIL WAR GUN BOAT IN 1861, AS THE “U.S.S. DELAWARE,” ACQUIRED BY THE U.S. REVENUE MARINE IN 1865 TO BECOME THE “U.S.R.C. DELAWARE,” RE-NAMED THE “U.S.R.C. LOUIS McLANE” IN 1873, SOLD AND RETURNED TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN 1903
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