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Lot 525
Sale 2057 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Oct 25, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$1,500 -
2,500
Lot Description
[FLAGS]. 46-star American flag used by Company C, 33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. 1908-1912.
60 x 86 in. flag comprised of machine-sewn wool bunting stripes, with 46 cotton stars machine-sewn in zig-zag stitch in a 8-7-8-8-7-8 arrangement on wool bunting canton. The canvas header stenciled "CO C 33 Mich," and fitted with two brass grommets.
The flag belonged to Charles McLean (1875-1951) and is accompanied by a pressed brass insignia of the 33rd Michigan Infantry, three photographs ca 1898: the first of McLean in uniform, another of McLean on horseback, and the third of a military encampment; together with a camp knife and fork, and four American Legion pins.
Provenance: Collection of Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, MD.

