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Lot 173

Sale 6113 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 13, 2013 10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$35,000 - 50,000

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Rare seventeen-star Naval Color early 19th century

Prussian blue canton with seventeen, five-pointed cotton stars, with thirteen stripes, seven cochineal red and six white stripes, the hoist with three sewn grommets, hoist bears inscription, "R I 8" or "R T 8" and the other side, "Miss Street," or "Miss Streeter" three times in pencil, hand-sewn throughout, framed. Accompanied by note, "This flag was hand sewn by the sailors of the U.S.S. Shanandore in the harbor of Rio Janeiro So. America when there were only 17 States in the Union." Framed.

38 3/4 in. x 72 in. (sight)

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