Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
 

1876 CENTENNIAL STEVENSGRAPH BOOKMARK, WITH AN EXPERTLY EMBROIDERED RENDERING OF THE PAINTING OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, BY THE ‘PARTY OF FIVE,” BY JOHN TRUMBULL

Web ID: pat-827

38 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG WITH JUSTIFIED ROWS OF 7-6-6-6-6-7 AND SCATTERED STAR ORIENTATION, MADE DURING THE PERIOD WHEN COLORADO WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, 1876-1889

Web ID: 38j-1191

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

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 WITH 10-POINTED STARS THAT SPELL “1776 – 1876”, MADE FOR THE 100-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, ONE OF THE MOST GRAPHIC OF ALL EARLY EXAMPLES

Web ID: 38j-1190

ANTIQUE AMERICAN PARADE FLAG / BANNER WITH A STANDING PORTRAIT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON & HIS HORSE, “BLUESKIN,” SET WITHIN AN OVAL WINDOW, ON A GROUND OF RED & WHITE STRIPES, MADE FOR THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE BY S.H. GREENE & SONS OF WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND

Web ID: pat-839

"A NATION'S LOSS": SILK, 1865, ABRAHAM LINCOLN MOURNING RIBBON IN AN ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE PORTRAIT DESIGN

Web ID: pat-834

LARGE SCALE SOUVENIR STEVENSGRAPH, MADE TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CHAMPROMY & A. LARCHER, IN SAINT-ÉTIENNE, FRANCE, FOR PHILADELPHIA’S 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION

Web ID: pat-720

LATE 19th CENTURY FLAG OF THE REVENUE MARINE (a.k.a., REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE), WITH A BLUE EAGLE AMID AN ARCH OF 13 BLUE STARS, ON A WHITE CANTON, AND 16 RED & WHITE, VERTICAL STRIPES, MADE circa 1885-1895

Web ID: ofj-961

46 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH VARIED STAR POSITIONING, A SCARCE AND BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE; REFLECTS THE PERIOD WHEN OKLAHOMA WAS THE MOST RECENT STATE TO JOIN THE UNION, circa 1907-1912

Web ID: 46j-913

SUFFRAGE "BLUEBIRD": ENAMELED TIN SIGN, COMMISSIONED BY GERTRUDE LEONARD & TERESA CROWLEY FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, FOR ITS EASTERN CAMPAIGN, 1915

Web ID: ws-152

YELLOW SUFFRAGETTE SASH, MADE FOR CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT'S "WOMAN SUFFRAGE PARTY" OF NEW YORK CITY, CA 1909-1917

Web ID: ws-151

45 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG OF THE 1896-1908 ERA, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF UTAH AS THE 45TH STATE; SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA; AN ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE WITH LARGER STARS THAN MOST AND EXCEPTIONAL, TRADITIONAL SHADES OF SCARLET RED AND NAVY

Web ID: 45j-975

EXTRAORDINARY 34 STAR ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH AN ACCORDION OR HOURGLASS MEDALLION CONFIGURATION THAT SURROUNDS A PENTAGON OF STARS IN THE CENTER; MADE OF FINE SILK AND ENTIRELY HAND-SEWN; MADE DURING THE OPENING YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR (1861-63), IN A TINY SIZE AMONG ITS COUNTERPARTS OF THE PERIOD; REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF KANSAS AS THE 34TH STATE

Web ID: 34j-1009

42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A WAVE CONFIGURATION OF LINEAL COLUMNS, AN UNOFFICIAL STAR COUNT THAT REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, circa 1889-1890

Web ID: 42j-949

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

CONFEDERATE 1st NATIONAL PATTERN COMPANY FLAG (A.K.A., "STARS & BARS"), CARRIED BY THE “GRIMES COUNTY GREYS,” FORMALLY DESIGNATED “G” COMPANY OF THE 4th TEXAS INFANTRY, INTEGRAL TO HOOD’S FAMOUS “TEXAS BRIGADE,” ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA; ATTRIBUTED TO FLAG MAKER HENRY CASSIDY OF NEW ORLEANS; SENT TO THE FAMILY OF SGT. JAMES L. GOULD IN 1863, FOLLOWING HIS DEATH AT LITTLE ROUND TOP, GETTYSBURG

Web ID: fcj-951

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

42 STARS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH SCATTERED STAR POSITIONING, REFLECTS THE ADDITION OF WASHINGTON STATE, MONTANA, AND THE DAKOTAS, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, circa 1889-1890

Web ID: 42j-932

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS PENNANT OF NOTABLE WEIGHT & QUALITY, IN THE OLD COLOR SCHEME, MADE DURING OR IN THE WAKE OF WWII

Web ID: pat-820

 


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