 ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG / ENSIGN, WITH 13 STARS & A CANTED ANCHOR, MADE BY WM. H. HORSTMANN CO., PHILADELPHIA, circa 1893 – 1920’s
Web ID: 13j-1310  EXTRAORDINARY, HAND-SEWN, 13 STAR AMERICAN NATIONAL FLAG WITH 8-POINTED STARS ON A GLAZED, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANTON THAT RESTS ON THE “WAR” OR “BLOOD” STRIPE, SET WITHIN A COMPLEMENT OF 12 STRIPES; A RARE, PRE-CIVIL WAR EXAMPLE, PROBABLY MADE circa 1820-1840’s; FOUND IN UPSTATE, NEW YORK, EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – JULY, 2019
Web ID: 13j-1463  13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, A HOMEMADE EXAMPLE WITH AN INCREDIBLY RARE CONFIGURATION OF STARS THAT CONSISTS OF A BOX OF 9 WITH 4 OUTLIERS, SET AGAINST A LIGHT BLUE CANTON; LIKELY MADE IN CELEBRATION OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, JUNE-JULY 2019
Web ID: 13j-1527  EXTREMELY RARE U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 13 STARS, A REVERSAL OF THE U.S. NAVY COLOR SCHEME, TWENTY-FOUR FEET ON THE FLY, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - WWI ERA (1898-1917)
Web ID: 13j-1580  13 STARS ON A FLAG MADE FOR THE 1840 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, WITH THE INCLUSION OF A THREE-COLOR PORTRAIT MEDALLION, IN VIOLET , GOLD, AND BLACK; AMONG THE EARLIEST OF ALL PRINTED FLAGS KNOWN TO EXIST; REFLECTS THE VERY FIRST NOMINEE FOR WHOM PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN PARADE FLAGS WERE MADE
Web ID: 13j-1649  8-FOOT COMMISSION PENNANT WITH 13 STARS, MADE circa 1892-1910
Web ID: 13j-1655  13 STARS WITH SHORT, CONICAL ARMS ON A SMALL SCALE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A BEAUTIFULLY ELONGATED FORMAT AND MUCH PATINA FROM OBVIOUS USE; MADE DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19th CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY J.S. OBERHOLTZER IN GERMANTOWN [PHILADELPHIA], PENNSYLVANIA
Web ID: 13j-1704  13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 PATTERN OF ESPECIALLY LARGE STARS; A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN, SIGNED & DATED 1914, MADE AT THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD IN NEW YORK CITY
Web ID: 13j-1722  13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION OF STARS ON AN ATTRACTIVE, INDIGO BLUE CANTON; A SMALL-SCALE EXAMPLE OF THE 1895-1926 ERA, INSCRIBED WITH THE SURNAME “SPENGE,” LIKELY PRODUCED BY A MAKER WITH LINKS TO THE U.S. ARMY’S 19th CORPS
Web ID: 13j-1725  ANTIQUE AMERICAN PRIVATE YACHT FLAG / ENSIGN WITH 13 STARS AND A CANTED ANCHOR, circa 1895 – 1940
Web ID: 13j-1734  13 STARS ON A DUSTY BLUE CANTON, IN AN OVAL VERSION OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE 3RD MARYLAND PATTERN, MADE DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19TH CENTURY, MARKED WITH THE SURNAME “NYE”
Web ID: 13j-1737  13 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION AND AN INK-STAMPED MARK OF THE NEW ENGLAND DECORATING COMPANY OF MASSACHUSETTS, WITH HAND-SEWN, TWILL TAPE TIES, MADE IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19TH CENTURY, circa 1892-1899
Web ID: 13j-1738  ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, WITH 13 STARS IN A SPECTACULAR PINWHEEL STYLE “GREAT STAR”; A MASTERPIECE OF EARLY AMERICAN FLAG-MAKING, ONE OF JUST TWO KNOWN EXAMPLES WITH A VARIANT OF THIS DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION, AND ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL KNOWN 13 STAR FLAGS OF ANY PERIOD
Web ID: 13j-1740  13 STARS IN A MEDALLION CONFIGURATION, ON A SMALL-SCALE ANTIQUE AMERICA FLAG MADE DURING THE LAST DECADE OF THE 19th CENTURY
Web ID: 13j-1746  ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH 13 HAND-SEWN STARS IN A 3-2-3-2-3 CONFIGURATION, MADE IN THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, IN AN EXTRAORDINARY AND VERY DESIRABLE SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS
Web ID: 13j-1760  16 STARS IN A RARE AND BEAUTIFUL STARBURST MEDALLION, ON A HOMEMADE & ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN, ANTIQUE ANTIQUE FLAG, MADE WITH AN ABOLITIONIST MESSAGE, circa 1850-1858, REMOVING THE SLAVE STATES FROM THE STAR COUNT, YET WITH A COMBINATION OF TRAITS THAT CURIOUSLY REFLECT TENNESSEE AS THE 16th STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, AND THE 11th TO LEAVE IT; ARGUABLY THE BEST TO EXIST IN THIS STAR COUNT
Web ID: 16j-807  21 STARS IN A “GREAT STAR” OR “GREAT LUMINARY” PATTERN, A SOUTHERN-EXCLUSIONARY STAR COUNT ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, SIGNED BY THE MAKER, ONE-OF-A-KIND AMONG KNOWN EXAMPLES
Web ID: 21j-806  24 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN MISSOURI WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1821-1836; AN EXTREMELY RARE STAR COUNT; EXPERTLY SEWN, BUT WITH HIGHLY UNUSUAL, SINGLE-APPLIQUED STARS THAT EXPOSE A PECULIARLY SMALL WINDOW ON THE REVERSE; EXHIBITED JUNE- SEPTEMBER, 2021 AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Web ID: 24j-803  24 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, MADE IN THE PERIOD WHEN MISSOURI WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1821-1836, EXTRAORDINARILY RARE, WITH ITS CANTON RESTING ON THE “WAR STRIPE” OR “BLOOD STRIPE," AND IN A REMARKABLY TINY SCALE AMONG FLAGS OF THIS ERA
Web ID: 24j-806  26 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH 11 STRIPES AND IT’S CANTON RESTING ON THE “WAR STRIPE.” THE EARLIEST KNOWN STAR COUNT FOR PRINTED EXAMPLES, 1837-1846, MICHIGAN STATEHOOD
Web ID: 26j-830
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