Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
 

SUFFRAGETTE RIBBON WITH AN ALLEGORICAL FIGURE STANDING UPON THE U.S. CONSTITUTION BEFORE A LION & LAMB, WITH A BROKEN SWORD, AN AMERICAN FLAG, AND A HOST OF GREAT SLOGANS, AMONG THE EARLIEST KNOWN AMERICAN SUFFRAGE TEXTILES, circa 1880-1890 
GOLDEN YELLOW SUFFRAGETTE RIBBON, MADE FOR CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT'S "WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY" OF NEW YORK CITY, circa 1912-17 
GOLDEN YELLOW SILK RIBBON & PINBACK COMBINATION, DENOTING THE ENDORSEMENT OF THE SUFFRAGE CAUSE BY UNITED STATES SENATOR & REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WARREN G. HARDING OF OHIO, IN THE MATTER RATIFYING THE 19TH AMENDMENT 
34 UPSIDE-DOWN, HAND-SEWN STARS IN A NOTCHED CONFIGURATION, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WITH A BEAUTIFUL AND HIGHLY UNUSUAL JACQUARD WEAVE BINDING, AND IN A TINY SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF KANSAS AS THE 34TH STATE, 1861-1863 
SUFFRAGE "BLUEBIRD": ENAMELED TIN SIGN, COMMISSIONED BY GERTRUDE LEONARD & TERESA CROWLEY FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, FOR ITS EASTERN CAMPAIGN, 1915 
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 
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 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) 
13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION OF STARS, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 

 


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