Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
 

SILK RIBBON, OF GENEROUS SCALE, WITH ELABORATE PATRIOTIC IMAGES AND A PORTRAIT OF ULYSSES S. GRANT, MADE EITHER FOR ONE OF HIS TWO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS (1868 & 1872), OR TO HONOR HIM AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA 
STEVENSGRAPH BOOK MARK / RIBBON GLORIFYING ULYSSES S. GRANT, WITH HIS PORTRAIT IN MILITARY GARB, MADE BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS BY WHICH THESE WERE PRODUCED 
STEVENSGRAPH BOOK MARK / RIBBON GLORIFYING ULYSSES S. GRANT AND HIS VICTORIES AT RICHMOND, VICKSBURG, AND FORT DONELSON, WITH HIS PORTRAIT IN MILITARY GARB, MADE BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS BY WHICH THESE WERE PRODUCED 
39 TUMBLING STARS IN STAGGERED ROWS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A GHOSTLY PRESENTATION FROM EXTENSIVE WEAR, MADE DURING THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, REFLECTS THE ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF THE DAKOTA TERRITORY AS A SINGLE STATE 
RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL 44 STAR UNITED STATES INFANTRY BATTLE FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, GOLD FRINGE, AND RED WOOL TIES, LATE INDIAN WARS, WYOMING STATEHOOD, 1890-1896 
36 STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION ON A PARADE FLAG WITH A HUGE, HALOED CENTER STAR; A RARE EXAMPLE, LARGE IN SCALE, CIVIL WAR ERA, NEVADA STATEHOOD, 1864-67 
13 STARS IN A CIRCULAR VERSION OF THE 3rd MARYLAND PATTERN, ON A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, WITH A LARGE CENTER STAR, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A SQUARE PROFILE, MADE BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 
13 STARS ARRANGED IN A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN ON A SMALL-SCALE FLAG OF THE 1890'S-1910 ERA, WITH AN ATTRACTIVE, ELONGATED PROFILE 
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 
38 HAND-SEWN STARS IN AN UNUSUALLY CONFINED PATTERN OF JUSTIFIED ROWS, ON AN ANTIQUE FLAG IN AN ESPECIALLY SMALL SCALE FOR THE PERIOD, 1876-1889, COLORADO STATEHOOD 
36 STARS, MADE FOR THE 1868 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF ULYSSES S. GRANT & SCHUYLER COLFAX, UNIQUE AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES, IN A BOLD LARGE SIZE, WITH ATTRACTIVE WESTERN LETTERS AND THE INTERESTING INCLUSION OF AN EXCLAMATION POINT 
CONFEDERATE BIBLE FLAG IN AN INTERESTING VARIANT OF THE 1ST NATIONAL DESIGN THAT CURIOSLY RESEMBLES THE 3RD NATIONAL PATTERN; Ca MAY AND JULY OF 1861, 10 WHIMSICALLY EMBROIDERED STARS, FOUND w/ A BOOK OF SIGNATURES PRESENTED TO A BALTIMORE WOMAN WHO TENDED TO CONFEDERATE OFFICERS IN THE UNION PRISON 
CONFEDERATE 1ST NATIONAL PATTERN BIBLE FLAG WITH A RIBBON IN PLACE OF STARS, ATTRIBUTED TO DANIEL CLANCY OF THE 2ND KENTUCKY INFANTRY, WHO SPENT TIME IN THE UNION MILITARY PRISON AT FORT DONELSON, TENNESSEE AND POSSIBLY AT CINCINNATI, OHIO, AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY KILLED AT VICKSBURG 
WWI, BELGIAN-MADE VERSION OF THE STARS & STRIPES WITH 30 CROSS-HATCH STARS, USED TO WELCOME U.S. SOLDIERS INTO THE CITY OF VIRTON, BELGIUM IN 1918, FOLLOWING ITS LIBERATION FROM GERMAN OCCUPATION 
38 STARS IN A NOTCHED, CROSSHATCH PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE BY THE U.S. BUNTING COMPANY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, 1876-1889, COLORADO STATEHOOD 
48 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG DESIGNED AND COMMISSIONED BY WAYNE WHIPPLE, AN EXTRAORDINARY DESIGN AND ONE OF JUST TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES WITH PIECED-AND-SEWN CONSTRUCTION, 1909-1912 
POSTCARD WITH A SUFFRAGETTE DRESSED IN YELLOW AND DISPLAYING A YELLOW "VOTES FOR WOMEN" PENNANT, WITH A MESSAGE THAT CALLS FOR CALIFORNIA TO BECOME THE 6TH STATE TO ADOPT WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE 
U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN WITH 13 HAND-SEWN STARS, PROBABLY MADE BETWEEN MADE BETWEEN 1866 AND 1870, IN THE LARGEST SIZE DICTATED BY NAVY REGULATIONS, A VERY SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL ROWS 
34 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE DURING THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, WITH SPLENDID PRESENTATION RESULTING FROM THE ENDEARING CHARACTERISTICS OF LONG-TERM USE, POSSIBLY FIELD-CARRIED BY A UNION REGIMENT, CA 1861-63, KANSAS STATEHOOD 
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 
48 STARS IN DANCING ROWS, A RARE VARIETY OF ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG IN A LARGE SCALE, 1912-1918 OR PERHAPS EARLIER, ARIZONA & NEW MEXICO STATEHOOD 
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB BURGEE, CA 1875-1895, A VERY RARE FIND FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY 
48 STAR FLAG & MATCHING COMMISSIONING PENNANT OF THE WWII ERA, SELDOM EVER FOUND IN A MATCHING PAIR, BROUGHT HOME BY U.S. NAVY AMPHIBIOUS FORCES GROUP SAILOR LUTHER VOIGHT LINGLE, WHO SERVED ON THE U.S.S. REEVES, THE FIRST AMERICAN SHIP TO DROP ANCHOR IN JAPANESE WATERS BEFORE THE SURRENDER 
13 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; A SCARCE EXAMPLE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS, WITH NICE FOLK QUALITIES