 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
Web ID: 29j-816  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
Web ID: 30-002  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
Web ID: 31j-828  31 STARS IN A FANCIFUL STARBURST OR "GREAT STAR-IN-A-SQUARE", ONE OF THE MOST RARE AND INTERESTING CONFIGURATIONS THAT A COLLECTOR CAN ENCOUNTER, ON A PRE-CIVIL WAR PARADE FLAG, CALIFORNIA STATEHOOD, 1850-1858
Web ID: 31j-839  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
Web ID: 31j-853  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
Web ID: 31j-860  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
Web ID: 34j-1009  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)
Web ID: 34j-1020  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)
Web ID: 34j-1027  EXCEPTIONAL 34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN circa 1861-1863, WITH STRIPES THAT BEGIN AND END ON WHITE, IN A COUNT OF 9 TO PRESUMABLY OMIT THE 4 SECEDED STATES FROM THE AMONG THE ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES, AND WITH APPLIED PANELS THAT READ: “PEACE & LIBERTY”; GIVEN TO DAVIS CAMRON OF “D” COMPANY, 38TH OHIO INFANTRY, BY THE FAMILY OF ORRIN TAYLOR OF “D” & “F” COMPANIES, 67TH OHIO VOLUNTEERS, THE LATTER MORTALLY WOUNDED AT APPOMA
Web ID: 34j-1030  34 STARS IN A WHIMSICAL RENDITION OF THE GREAT STAR PATTERN, ON A CIVIL WAR PERIOD FLAG WITH A CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON, MADE WHEN KANSAS WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; UPDATED TO 39 STARS, IN 1876, IN ANTICIPATION OF THE ADDITION OF THE DAKOTA TERRITORY AS ONE STATE
Web ID: 34j-841  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
Web ID: 34j-845  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
Web ID: 34j-976  33 STARS, UPDATED TO 35, IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE DIAMOND MEDALLION & WITH HAND-WRITTEN NOTES RECORDING IT AS HAVING BEEN FLOWN TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JAMES GARFIELD, & WILLIAM McKINLEY, AS WELL AS TO CELEBRATE WARTIME VICTORIES IN THE CIVIL WAR & WWI; MADE BY MILLINER & CIVIL WAR WOMEN’S AUXILIARY OFFICER ELIZA DUNN OF ERIE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, circa 1860-1861
Web ID: 35j-821  35 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, IN A DESIRABLE SMALL SCALE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS, WITH A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL "SNOWBALL MEDALLION"; LIKELY MADE IN BALTIMORE BY SAILMAKER JABEZ LOANE; REFLECTS THE TIME WHEN WEST VIRGINIA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1863-1865
Web ID: 35j-895  36 EIGHT-POINTED STARS IN MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, ON AN OCEAN BLUE CANTON THAT RESTS ON THE WAR STRIPE; A SPECTACULAR CIVIL WAR PERIOD FLAG FROM THE TINCLAD GUNBOAT "GENERAL GRANT," THAT SERVED ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER IN DEFENSE OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Web ID: 36j-929  EXCEPTIONAL 36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH AN EXTRAORDINARY STAR CONFIGURATION, UNIQUE TO THIS EXAMPLE, AND THE EXTREMELY RARE PRESENCE OF A MATCHING 6 STAR NARROW PENNANT; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN NEVADA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1864-1867; EXHIBITED JUNE – SEPT., 2021 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, PHILADELPHIA
Web ID: 36j-934  37 SIX-POINTED STARS, IN THREE DIFFERENT SIZES, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DOUBLE-WREATH STYLE MEDALLION THAT FEATURES A LARGE CENTER STAR, FLANKED IN EACH CORNER BY FANCIFUL CLUSTERS OF 4; A MASTERPIECE AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES; INSCRIBED WITH THE SURNAME “PURSEL”; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN NEBRASKA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1867-1876
Web ID: 37j-839  RARE & BEAUTIFUL 38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, AN INDIAN WAR PERIOD MILITARY GUIDON, MADE OF SILK AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, WITH EMBROIDERED STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, 1876-1889, COLORADO STATEHOOD
Web ID: 38j-1047  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
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