 33 STARS ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A "GREAT STAR" CONFIGURATION ON A BRILLIANT, INDIGO BLUE CANTON, A RARE AND EXTRAORDINARY EXAMPLE, PRE-CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE WAR'S OPENING YEAR, 1859-1861, OREGON STATEHOOD
Web ID: 33j-868  ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH “VIRGINIA" PAINTED AROSS THE STRIPED FIELD & 31 STARS ARRANGED IN A FORM OF THE “GREAT STAR” PATTERN; PART OF A GROUP REPRESENTING STATES & TERRITORIES, DISPLAYED AT THE 1860 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN CHICAGO (A.K.A. THE WIGWAM COVENTION), WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS SELECTED FROM THE 3RD BALLOT TO BECOME THE PARTY’S FIRST SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE; FOUND IN MIDDLETOWN, NY AMONG THE EFFECTS OF WHIG / REPUBLICAN PARTY ORGANIZER HALSTEAD SWEET
Web ID: 31j-843  31 STAR PARADE FLAG, MADE FOR THE 1860 CAMPAIGN OF JOHN BELL & EDWARD EVERETT, WITH A “UNION AND THE CONSTITUTION” SLOGAN, PROBABLY MADE BY H.C. HOWARD OF PHILADELPHIA
Web ID: 31j-852  27 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG, MADE TO COMMEMORATE THE 1845 ADDITION OF FLORIDA AS THE 27th STATE, MOST LIKELY FOR DISPLAY AND DISTRIBUTION AT THE 1/5TH SCALE MODEL OF CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS (a.k.a., FORT MARION), THAT HOUSED FLORIDA'S EXHIBITS AT THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR / WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPO
Web ID: 27j-805  OHIO STATE FLAG WITH CIVIL WAR VETERANS' OVERPRINT FROM THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC POST IN COLUMBUS, MADE IN MOURNING OF THE 1925 PASSING OF NATIONAL G.A.R. COMMANDER IN CHIEF DANIEL M. HALL, WHO ALSO SERVED AS COMMANDER OF THE OHIO DEPARTMENT OF THE G.A.R., AS WELL AS THE LOCAL CHAPTER
Web ID: ofj-940  13 STARS IN A MEDALLION PATTERN ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG MADE BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 1910 AND THE 1926 SESQUICENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
Web ID: 13j-1674  13 STAR RIBBON, WOVEN SILK, circa 1876-1910
Web ID: 13j-1684  13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, IN A TINY SCALE AMONG PIECED-AND-SEWN EXAMPLES OF THE 19TH CENTURY, WITH HAND-SEWN STARS ARRANGED IN A CIRCULAR VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN; FEATURES AN ESPECIALLY LARGE CENTER STAR, MADE circa 1890
Web ID: 13j-1585  13 HAND-EMBROIDERED STARS AND EXPERTLY HAND-SEWN STRIPES ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE IN PHILADELPHIA BY SARAH M. WILSON, GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF BETSY ROSS, SIGNED & DATED 1910; THE LARGEST KNOWN EXAMPLE OF THIS VARIETY, MADE AND SOLD TO TOURISTS AT INDEPENDENCE HALL
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