Flag

Object Name:

Flag

Object ID:

1972.503.02

Creator:

Sigsbee & Co., Ayer, MAManufacturer

Place of Origin:

Sigsbee & Co., Ayer, MA

Date:

1898-1907

Description:

US Flag - 45 Stars; all-wool machine sewn with 45 white stars on a 38" x 48" field of blue, and with 7 red and 6 grey 5.5" wide stripes. It is bound on one side with a 3" wide white band with two metal grommets on each end. Tag on band reads "THIS IS A / SIGSBEE FLAG? IT IS SILK SEWES; ALL WOOL / AND WARRANTED FAST / COLORS".

Flag. United States. Manufactured by Sigsbee & Co., Ayer, MA. . Machine stitched with white silk thread, stars stitched with linen or cotton thread (do fiber ID). Canton; wool plain weave resting on a white stripe with 45 3.50" five pointed stars of linen or cotton (do fiber ID) arranged in a repeat pattern of six rows alternating eight then seven stars each, double appliqued with machine zig-zag stitches to a 38" x 48" blue field. Thirteen 5.50" wide stripes of a plain woven wool bunting, seven red, six grey, pieced and machine stitched with 0.25" flat felled seams on the horizontal. Hoist; 3" wide white band of a plain woven (double warp) white cotton canvas with two brass grommets on each end. Cotton tag on band printed in a faded blue ink, text "THIS IS A / SIGSBEE FLAG IT IS SILK SEWED; ALL WOOL / AND WARRANTED FAST / COLORS". Selvedges on the outer edge of the first and seventh red stripe as well as the top edge of the canton. Fly end hemmed 0.75" with three parallel rows of top stitching.

Material:

Textile
Wool
Silk
Brass
Cotton?

Dimensions:

W-71 L-119 inches

Provenance:

Found in collection. Sigsbee & Co. was a flag manufacturing company in Ayers, MA from 1890-1929.

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Collection

Subjects:

Flags, Banners, Stars, Stripes