 ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, 13 STAR, U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN WITH A 4-5-4 CONFIGURATION, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN 1850 AND THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR (1861-63)
Web ID: 13j-1444  CIVIL WAR PERIOD OR PRIOR NAVYMAN’S FROCK AND JACK TAR HAT WITH ELABORATE PATRIOTIC AND NAUTICAL DECORATION, LIKELY THE BEST EXAMPLES OF EACH TO HAVE SURVIVED IN PRIVATE HANDS
Web ID: pat-428  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
Web ID: pat-250  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]
Web ID: pat-268  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
Web ID: pat-245  EXCEPTIONALLY RARE 44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH OVERPRINTED ADVERTISING FOR ONE OF ONLY FIVE AMERICAN OPERAS WRITTEN DURING THE 19TH CENTURY: “SHIP AHOY!”; THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE
Web ID: 44-004  CUBAN FLAG, A BEAUTIFUL SATIN EXAMPLE ON ITS ORIGINAL SQUARE WOODEN STAFF, MADE CA 1890'S-1915
Web ID: ofj-901  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
Web ID: ker-074  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  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  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
Web ID: 46j-882  ONE OF THE THREE EARLIEST BRITISH UNION JACKS THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN PRIVATE HANDS, 1801-1835
Web ID: BRITj-824  EARLY FLAG OF PHILADELPHIA, PROBABLY 1874-1876, PRINTED ON A WOOL & COTTON BLENDED FABRIC AND HAND-COLORED, EXTREMELY RARE
Web ID: ofj-878  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  ELABORATE SILK BANNER WITH GILDED TEXT, SPECTACULAR BULLION TRIM, AND A BEAUTIFULLY PAINTED RENDITION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAMOUS "PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE", MADE FOR THE PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA, PHILADELPHIA, 1901, BY LOUIS E. STILZ & BRO.
Web ID: pat-252  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
Web ID: 13j-1054  PRINTED COTTON BANNER, MADE FOR THE 1928 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF NEW YORK ASSEMBLYMAN AND SHERRIF TURNED GOVERNOR, AL SMITH, A LEADING PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT DEMOCRAT AND THE FIRST CATHOLIC TO RUN FOR THE NATION'S HIGHEST OFFICE ON A MAJOR PARTY TICKET
Web ID: pat-167  44 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE OF SILK, WITH GILT-PAINTED STARS & LETTERS THAT DESIGNATE A CHAPTER OF THE JUNIOR ORDER OF UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS, A PATRIOTIC FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION FOUNDED IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA IN 1853; MADE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1890-1896
Web ID: 44j-815  PRE-1875 PENNSYLVANIA STATE STANDARD WITH A HAND-PAINTED DEVICE ON SILK, METALLIC BULLION FRINGED
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