Banner
- Object Name:
- Banner
- Object ID:
- 1971.028.04
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- 1905-1917
- Description:
- Embroidered banner. Tan cotton canvas plain-weave ground, with watercolor painted clouds, embroidered with silk two-ply S-twist red, white, blue, gold, brown, and black embroidery thread. Motif, 14" x 16.5", of red, white, and blue American shield with a spread-wing eagle on top, embroidered with long satin stitched, "THE ARMY AND NAVY FOREVER" in a semicircle with parts of the phrase on each side of the eagle; stem stitched radial lines in gold projecting out from the shield. Two selvedges. Hand hemmed 0.25" top and bottom with blanket stitches of white cotton thread.
- Material:
- Textile
Cotton
Silk - Dimensions:
- W-21.5 L-15.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of the Cape Cod Museum of History and Art. From a donation of framed photographs of N.H. governors and staffs, badges, snapshots, and memorabilia of Adj. General Augustus D. Ayling.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Cape Cod Museum of History Art
- People:
- Ayling, Augustus D. (1840-1918)
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