Jeff Bridgman Antique Flags
 

EXCEPTIONAL CONFEDERATE 1ST NATIONAL PATTERN BIBLE FLAG WITH A CRESCENT FORMATION OF 11 STARS, 2 OF WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN SUBSEQUENTLY ADDED AS MORE STATES SECEDED FROM THE UNION; MADE ca MARCH-MAY, 1861, UPDATED BETWEEN THEN AND OCTOBER; FOUND AMONG A COLLECTION OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY TWO NEW ENGLAND SOLDIERS, PROBABLE UNION CAPTURE 
13 STARS ARRANGED IN 6-POINTED GREAT STAR / STAR OF DAVID PATTERN, A RARE AND PARTICULARLY EARLY EXAMPLE AMONG PARADE FLAGS IN THIS STAR COUNT, PROBABLY MADE FOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING, CA 1848-1860 
19TH CENTURY EXAMPLE OF THE FLAG OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, MADE ca 1878-1895, ONE OF THE EARLIEST EXAMPLES KNOWN TO SURVIVE, MADE IN HOUSTON BY REPSDORPH BROTHERS, WITH A STENCILED MAKER'S MARK, HANDED DOWN THROUGH THE FAMILY OF MARY JANE HARRIS BRISCOE (1819-1903), FOUNDER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS, THE WIFE OF ANDREW BRISCOE (1810-1849), WHO ORGANIZED THE TEXAS REVOLUTION AND SIGNED ITS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 
VOTES FOR WOMEN BANNER IN PURPLE AND GREEN, WITH EXCEPTIONAL SCALE, MADE IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, PROBABLY FOR THE WOMEN'S POLITICAL UNION OF NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, AND NEW JERSEY, ORGANIZED BY CARRIE STANTON'S DAUGHTER, HARRIOT EATON STANTON BLATCH, 1910-1915 
"THE LEADER AND HIS BATTLES": A PATRIOTIC PRINT ON STICKS, GLORIFYING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF LT.-GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT DURING THE CIVIL WAR, PUBLISHED BY HAASIS & LUBRECHT, LIBERTY ST., NEW YORK CITY, WHO COPYRIGHTED THE DESIGN IN 1866 
SILK RIBBON, OF GENEROUS SCALE, WITH ELABORATE PATRIOTIC IMAGES AND A PORTRAIT OF ULYSSES S. GRANT, MADE EITHER FOR ONE OF HIS TWO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS (1868 & 1872), OR TO HONOR HIM AT THE 1876 CENTENNIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION IN PHILADELPHIA 
STEVENSGRAPH BOOK MARK / RIBBON GLORIFYING ULYSSES S. GRANT, WITH HIS PORTRAIT IN MILITARY GARB, MADE BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS BY WHICH THESE WERE PRODUCED 
STEVENSGRAPH BOOK MARK / RIBBON GLORIFYING ULYSSES S. GRANT AND HIS VICTORIES AT RICHMOND, VICKSBURG, AND FORT DONELSON, WITH HIS PORTRAIT IN MILITARY GARB, MADE BY THOMAS STEVENS, WHO INVENTED THE PROCESS BY WHICH THESE WERE PRODUCED 
39 TUMBLING STARS IN STAGGERED ROWS ON AN ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG WITH A GHOSTLY PRESENTATION FROM EXTENSIVE WEAR, MADE DURING THE ERA OF THE 1876 CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, NEVER AN OFFICIAL STAR COUNT, REFLECTS THE ANTICIPATED ARRIVAL OF THE DAKOTA TERRITORY AS A SINGLE STATE