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Lot 177
Sale 5848 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 10, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Three WWII items: Two American 48-Star printed parade Flags and a 7-Star commissioning pennant for the U.S.S. Gulfport circa 1943
The parade Flags printed, "Buy Bonds Support Your Country" and "Keep em Flying! Remember Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941," and a commissioning pennant with cotton machine-sewn stars on wool bunting framed with an invitation," The Commanding Officer, Officers and Crew/request lthe honor of your presence/at the Commissioning of the/ U.S.S. Gulfport/ at West Pier, Gulfport, Mississippi/ on / Saturday 16 September/nineteen hundres and forty-four/ at 10:00, all framed.
16 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. (Remember) and 14 in. x 9 1/2 in. (Buy Bonds)