Flag
- Object Name:
- Flag
- Object ID:
- 1972.503.04
- Creator:
- New England Bunting Company
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Possibly Lowell, MA
- Date:
- 1889
- Description:
- U.S. flag. Printed wool, machine stitched with 40 white stars on an 18.5" x 25.25" blue field and with seven red and six white stripes ~2.5" wide. Bound on blue field end with a 1.75" wide cotton band with two brass grommets through which the rope to hang the flag would be attached. Mended in areas but in good condition.
Flag. United States. Commercially manufactured. Possibly by New England Bunting Company. Machine stitched. Clamp dyed pattern on a plain woven wool bunting. Canton measuring 18.5" x 25.25" with 40 white stars each measuring 2.75" arranged in five rows of eight on an blue field. The top of the first and second star missing from as a result of printing flaw. Thirteen 2.50" wide horizontal stripes, seven red, six white 2.5". Hoist end bound with a 1.75" wide plain woven cotton header with two brass grommets, one on each end. Two selvedges one on top and bottom edges. Fly end hemmed 0.50" with two parallel lines of top stitches. Mended in two places on the 6th white stripe. - Material:
- Textile
Wool
Cotton
Brass - Dimensions:
- W-34.75 L-74 inches
- Provenance:
- Found in collection. Possibly by New England Bunting Company which opened in Lowell, MA in 1850.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Flags, Banners, Stars, Stripes, Textiles printed
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