[POLITICS]. 37-star "McKinley and Hobart" campaign flag. 1867-1896.

Approx. 56 by 105 in. wool flag with 37 double-appliquéd cotton stars hand sewn to a wool canton, configured in horizontal rows 7/8/7/8/7, with wool stripes that appear to be hand sewn. Cotton panel at fly end stenciled, "McKinley and Hobart." Cotton hoist with three whip-stitched eyelets, jute rope tied to each end, and maker's stamp, "Lamprell & Marble, Maker, 837 Court St., Boston." The hoist is also thrice stamped "Mastai Collection #28."

A rare flag banner created to be displayed vertically at a political event promoting William McKinley and Garret Hobart's 1896 presidential campaign. See Collins, Threads of History, fig. 737, p. 305, for a similar, 38-star printed flag banner.

Provenance: The Collection of Boleslaw and Marie-Louise d'Otrange Mastai; Sotheby's, Important Americana, 2002, Lot 118; South Bay Auctions, n.d., Lot 116; Collection of Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, MD.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Flag banner heavily worn near, particularly near hoist end, with areas of significant separation to canton and stripes, as well as some loss to canton. Soiling to hoist and

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[POLITICS]. 37-star "McKinley and Hobart" campaign flag. 1867-1896.

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