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 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS PENNANT FROM PARRIS ISLAND, circa WWI (U.S. INVOLVEMENT 1917-18) -1930’s
Web ID: pat-785 UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY PENNANT WITH "BILL THE GOAT" MASCOT AND WHIMSICAL LETTERING, circa 1930-1950’s
Web ID: pat-743 SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT WITH A FLYING, WARLIKE EAGLE SUPERIMPOSED ON A CANTED FEDERAL SHIELD & CROSSED AMERICAN FLAGS, BENEATH A STREAMER WITH THE LATIN MOTTO “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” INTERSPERSED WITH 13 STARS, circa 1890-1910
Web ID: pat-734 EXTRAORDINARY MARINE CORPS RECRUITMENT POSTER BY SIDNEY RIESENBERG (1885-1971), WITH SHARPLY APPOINTED OFFICERS STROLLING IN AN EXOTIC LOCAL, LIKELY DERNA OR MARRAKESH (i.e., “THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI”), circa 1913-1918
Web ID: pat-705 ELABORATE SAILOR’S SOUVENIR EMBROIDERY FROM THE ORIENT WITH A BEAUTIFUL HAND-PAINTED IMAGE OF WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE, SURROUNDED BY A LARGE EAGLE, FEDERAL SHIELD, CROSSED FLAGS, A CANNON, CANNONBALLS, AND ANCHOR, circa 1885-1910
Web ID: pat-663 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 JAPANESE-MADE PARADE FLAG IN THE RISING SUN FORMAT, THAT SERVED AS THE WAR FLAG OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY FROM 1889-1945, MADE DURING AMERICAN OCCUPATION (1945-1952)
Web ID: ofj-997 CANADIAN RED ENSIGN WITH THE ARMS OF CANADA, IN THE DESIGN ADOPTED IN 1922, IN USE UNTIL APPROXIMATELY 1957; THIS EXAMPLE LIKELY MADE circa 1920’s – 1940’s
Web ID: ofj-988 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 EXTREMELY EARLY KERCHIEF WITH A CHART OF 152 INTERNATIONAL MARITME FLAGS, PRINTED ON CLOTH, circa 1837-1845, WITH A 26 STAR AMERICAN FLAG AT THE TOP LEFT
Web ID: ker-252 BRITISH UNION FLAG OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, WITH BRILIANT AND UNUSUAL, COBALT BLUE COLORATION, AND A SIMPLIFIED, FOLK STYLE, WITH INCORRECT PROPORTIONS IN THE CROSSES OF ST. ANDREW & SAINT PATRICK, circa 1918-1952
Web ID: BRITj-833 ONE OF THE THREE EARLIEST BRITISH UNION JACKS THAT I HAVE ENCOUNTERED IN PRIVATE HANDS, 1801-1835
Web ID: BRITj-824 AMERICAN FLAG, 48 STARS, A U.S. NAVY SMALL BOAT ENSIGN FROM A WWII SUBMARINE, WITH ENDEARING WEAR FROM LONG-TERM USE; THE FLAG MADE IN JANUARY, 1944 AT MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA; BROUGHT HOME BY GUNNER’S MATE 2ND CLASS, JAY J. BURKINS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Web ID: 48j-1048 RARE & BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH IMAGES OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND HIS GREAT WHITE FLEET, 1907-1909, EX-RICHARD PIERCE COLLECTION
Web ID: 46j-906 LARGE & BEAUTIFULLY FADED, ANTIQUE AMERICAN JACK w/ 45 STARS ARRANGED IN A “NOTCHED” PATTERN, INTENTIONALLY LEAVING SPACE FOR THE 3 REMAINING WESTERN TERRITORIES YET TO BE ADDED; MADE IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1896 - 1908, WHEN UTAH WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION; SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA
Web ID: 45j-1012 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 36 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG & MATCHING 6 STAR HOMEWARD BOUND PENNANT, (NEVADA STATEHOOD), 1864-1867; EXHIBITED AT THE MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM JUNE – SEPTEMBER, 2021
Web ID: 36j-934 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 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
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