Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1945.019

Place of Origin:

United States

Date:

1861-1863

Description:

Flag. United States. Hand sewn and pieced; 34 white linen stars on a 36 x 34.5 inch blue wool field, and with originally seven red (one missing) and six white; 5 inch wide wool stripes. Bound by a 1.5 inch wide white linen band on which remains one brass grommet. Holes, stains and one red stripe missing.

Flag. United States. Pieced and hand sewn at 5 stitches/inch . Canton of two panels seamed horizontally at the middle, measures 36" x 34.5" on a blue field of plain woven wool bunting, possibly homespun, with 34 white linen stars hand appliqued to the obverse side of the canton. Twelve stripes, six red and six white measuring 5", only 0.50 of the seventh red stripe remains. Each stripe hand stitched 0.25" with flat felled seam. Hoist end overlapped 1" and bound by a 1.5" wide plain woven white linen band on which remains one brass grommet. Illegible numbers written in ink of the middle of the hoist (possibly "84") and next to the grommet. A patch measuring 2.50" x 4" of matching wool bunting located on the top edge near the corner of the fly end on the reverse side. Fly end hemmed 0.75".

Material:

Textile
Linen
Wool

Dimensions:

W-62 L-83.5 inches

Provenance:

Tag (now removed) reads "the Brick House / Antiques / Hillsboro, New Hampshire / Deering Road".

Credit Line:

Gift of Mathilde W. Wood

People:

Wood, Mathilde W. (1882-1947)

Subjects:

Wool, Stars, Stripes, Flags, Banners