Sale 1853
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$2,000 – $3,000
Cotton, approx. 44 x 82 in., machine-sewn flag with 30 hand-sewn, double-applique cotton stars. Note stapled to hoist edge: "This flag, with but 30 stars, was made by Ernest Smell's grand-mother; probably about 1848. Wisconsin, the 30th state admitted in 1848."
Several tears and splits. Canton has faded to a brown. There seems to be light cord of some kind in the hoist seam, but no ends visible now. (It might have had loops for hanging on that cord.) There are a few splits, but the fly is still hemmed, not shredded as flies that actually flap in a breeze tend to do.
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