Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
 

NATIVE AMERICAN BEADED BLANKET STRIP, BUFFALO HIDE, NORTHERN CHEYENNE OR LAKOTA SIOUX, EASTERN MONTANA / WESTERN MINNESOTA, LAST QUARTER 19th CENTURY

Web ID: pat-615

WINTERBERRY PATTERN QUILT WITH FLYING GEESE, IN PATRIOTIC COLORS AND WITH EXCEPTIONAL GRAPHIC IMPACT, ENTIRELY HAND-PIECED AND HAND-QUILTED, CIRCA 1860-1870’s

Web ID: q-071

EXCEPTIONAL 1876 CENTENNIAL QUILT MADE FROM VARIOUS FLAGS, KERCHIEFS, AND PATRIOTIC FABRICS, THE MOST ELABORATE AND RARE OF ITS KIND THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED, PICTURED IN TWO OF BOB BISHOP'S BOOKS ON AMERICAN FOLK ART; SOME OF THE TEXTILES UNKNOWN IN OTHER PATRIOTIC QUILTS

Web ID: Q-029

COLORADO STATE FLAG OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY, MADE OF SILK, CIRCA 1911-1920’s, EXTRAORDINARILY RARE IN THIS PERIOD AND THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE THAT I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED

Web ID: ofj-965

WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE, PAINTED IN OIL ON CANVAS, IN AN IMPRESSIVE SCALE, AFTER THE 1851 PAINTING BY EMANUEL LEUTZE; FOUND IN A HOUSE APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE FROM WHERE THE CELEBRATED EVENT TOOK PLACE, PROBABLY PAINTED FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

Web ID: pnt-173

VINTAGE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, THAT BECAME THE TEXAS STATE FLAG, MADE BY DECORATORS, INC. OF BRAZIL, INDIANA, [LATER KNOWN AS THE “OLD GLORY DECORATING COMPANY”], MOST LIKELY FOR THE 1936 CENTENNIAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS AS AN INDEPENDENT NATION, OR FOR THE 1945 CENTENNIAL OF TEXAS STATEHOOD

Web ID: ofj-990

MEXICAN NATIONAL FLAG IN THE DESIGN USED BY REVOLUTIONARIES FROM 1917 - 1934, THE FIRST PERIOD IN WHICH THE EAGLE WAS ILLUSTRATED IN SIDE VIEW; MADE OF GABARDINE WOOL AND WOOL BUNTING, WITH RICH COLORS AND A HAND-PAINTED DEVICE, USED IN THE LATTER YEARS OF THE ERA OF PONCHO VILLA (b. 1878, d. 1923)

Web ID: ofj-995

ONE OF THE ONLY ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAGS I AM AWARE TO SURVIVE IN A DESIGN THAT INCLUDES A RATTLESNAKE, THIS EXAMPLE IN A VARIANT OF THOSE RECORDED IN USE BY THE COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS NAVY FROM LATE 1775 - 1776, AND POSSIBLY BY THE PENNSYLVANIA NAVY ON THE DELAWARE RIVER BETWEEN LATE 1775 – 1778, ALL WITH A GREEN PINE TREE AS THE CENTRAL DEVICE UPON A WHITE FIELD; THIS EXAMPLE WITH A RATTLESNAKE COILED ABOUT ITS BASE AND ADORNED WITH “AN APPEAL TO GOD” & “DON’T TREAD ON ME” SLOGANS, H

Web ID: ofj-1008

 


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