 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  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  13 STARS IN THE BETSY ROSS PATTERN, WITH 45 STARS ON THE REVERSE; ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG MADE AND SIGNED BY A PREVIOUSLY UNIDENTIFIED FLAG-MAKER, ANNIE MAC LACHLAN OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, circa 1896-1908; A RARE AND INTERESTING EXAMPLE, IN A LARGE SCALE AMONG EARLY 13 STAR FLAGS IN THIS DESIGN
Web ID: 13J-1570  13 STARS IN A LOPSIDED, OVAL WREATH, SURROUNDING A FANCIFULLY HAND-PAINTED EAGLE, SIGNED “J.L. SEARING,” WITH A GARLAND-LADEN STREAMER THAT READS: "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL", ON A HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, WITH 44 STARS ON THE OPPOSING SIDE, MADE IN LOST SPRINGS KANSAS [MARION CO.], FOR A VETERAN OF BOTH THE MEXICAN AND CIVIL WARS WHO SETTLED THERE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN WYOMING WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1890-1896
Web ID: 13j-1724  13 STARS IN THE RARE AND VERY DESIRABLE TRUMBULL PATTERN, WITH AN UNUSUALLY ENORMOUS CENTER STAR, ON A HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG PRODUCED SOMETIME BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-1865) & THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE; THIS STAR CONFIGURATION NAMED FOR ARTIST JOHN TRUMBULL, WHO BRIEFLY SERVED AS GEORGE WASHINGTON’S AIDE-DE-CAMP (1776), BEFORE TRAVELING TO BRITAIN TO TRAIN UNDER WORLD-RENOWNED AMERICAN PAINTER, BENJAMIN WEST, THEN RETURNING TO THE STATES, WHERE HE AFTERWARDS FEA
Web ID: 13j-931  19 STARS IN AN SPECTACULAR STARBURST MEDALLION UNIQUE TO THIS FLAG, MADE SOMETIME BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR (1861-65) AND THE OPENING OF THE 1890'S, EITHER TO REFLECT NORTHERN SYMPATHIES, BY REPRESENTING THE COMPLEMENT OF UNION-SUPPORTING STATES AT THE TIME, OR TO COMMEMORATE INDIANA AS THE 19TH STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
Web ID: 19j-801  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  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  34 HAND-SEWN, UPSIDE-DOWN STARS ON A HOMEMADE, ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A VARIANT OF WHAT I HAVE CLASSIFIED AS A “GLOBAL” PATTERN, ON AN INTERESTING, SEAFOAM BLUE CANTON; REFLECTS KANSAS STATEHOOD, OPENING TWO YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1863
Web ID: 34j-1026  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  34 STAR MERINO WOOL FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD, WITH ITS STARS ORIENTED IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS ON A PERIWINKLE BLUE CANTON; HIGHLY UNUSUAL; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF KANSAS TO THE UNION AS A FREE STATE, circa 1861-1863
Web ID: 34j-1029  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  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  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  37 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG, ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN THROUGHOUT, WITH JUSTIFIED ROWS OF SINGLE-APPLIQUED STARS, MADE & SIGNED BY THE ANNIN COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY, WITH SIGNIFICANT WEAR FROM EXTENDED USE; REFLECTS THE ERA WHEN NEBRASKA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1867-1876
Web ID: 37j-855  38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN EXTREMELY RARE DOUBLE-WREATH CONFIGURATION THAT BOTH SURROUNDS AND IS FLANKED BY A SQUARE OF STARS, ON A BEAUTIFUL, CORNFLOWER BLUE CANON THAT RESTS ON A RED STRIPE, & WITH A WIDE, OXBLOOD RED HOIST & STRIPES; A HOMEMADE FLAG ECORDED AS HAVING BEEN MADE BY MARY JANE DUDLEY, OF WEST VIRGINIA, IN 1876, LIKELY TO CELEBRATE OUR NATION'S CENTENNIAL; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889
Web ID: 38j-1162  38 STARS IN A "NOTCHED" PATTERN, ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A DUSTY BLUE CANTON; LEAVES SPACE FOR MORE WESTERN TERRITORIES THAT HAD NOT YET JOINED THE UNION; REFLECTS COLORADO STATEHOOD, 1876-1889
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