EXTREMELY RARE CIVIL WAR 34 STAR EAGLE MEDALLION PARADE FLAG

EXTREMELY RARE CIVIL WAR 34 STAR EAGLE MEDALLION PARADE FLAG

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13″ x 18″ printed on polished cotton, parade flags with eagles as part of canton comprise the rarest group of the Civil War era. The leading rare American flag authority/dealer Jeff Bridgman wrote concerning a similar flag sold states online: “Parade flags that incorporate large eagles as a prominent feature in their design are among the rarest of all printed flags. I have owned five such examples…. and am aware of about ten in total that are known to have survived from the 19th century to the present… one of the rarest and most desirable types of imagery that exists in early American parade flags”. 

PROVENANCE: Forsythe’s Auction, March 17, 2022, lot 206; Nicholas Strand lifetime American flag collection

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