4 x 5 3/4 in. glazed cotton flag with 13 printed stars configured in rare 7-point sunburst pattern. The stripes vary in width, and the top stripe is signed, "Jennie Gail Bachman" (staining to edges, scattered spotting, small hole near lower right corner). Professionally mounted using stitch on board. 

This starburst design is uniquely kinetic with its seven satellites appearing to be in motion around a ring of four stars with one central star. Perhaps the design of this flag comes closer than other patterns to the true spirit of the Flag Resolution adopted by Congress in June 1777, which specified “that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation.”

This flag has been exhibited at a museum and is documented in the book The Stars and Stripes: Fabric of the American Spirit, Richard Pierce, LLC, 2005 (page 29).