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Lot 100
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$5,700
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Lot Description
[FLAGS]. 18-star American flag. Ca 1876-1890s.
Approx. 70 by 110 in. wool flag with 18 double-appliquéd cotton stars machine sewn to a three-part wool canton, configured in horizontal rows 4/3/4/3/4. The field consists of 13 machine-sewn wool stripes. Cotton sleeve hoist with jute rope, stenciled "10 x 6," and initialed lightly, "GHW."
A rare flag, likely made between 1876 and the 1890s, to commemorate the statehood of Louisiana, which was admitted as the 18th state on 30 April 1812.
Provenance: Collection of Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, MD.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.