Lot 3
[FLAGS]. 13-star American parade flag with rare 7-point starburst pattern. Ca 1876.
Sale 1250 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 30, 2023 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
Estimate
$2,000 - $2,500

Sold for $1,512

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[FLAGS]. 13-star American parade flag with rare 7-point starburst pattern. Ca 1876.

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).

J. Richard Pierce Collection of American Parade Flags
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