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Patriotic/Historic/Documented Quilts- 'POTHOLDER' UNIQUE LOG CABIN VARIATION ANTIQUE QUILT, reds and white
- 'PRINTED PATCHWORK' - A FAUX CRAZY QUILT
- 'TARGETS' PATRIOTIC ANTIQUE PIECED QUILT
- 'TOUCHING' STARS CRAZY-TYPE ANTIQUE QUILT, embroidered flowers
- 1876 PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL FLAGS OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD THAT EXHIBITED
- 25-PATCH DIAMONDS VINTAGE QUILT, feedsacks on turquoise
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN STEREOTYPE FIGURES VINTAGE QUILT
- AMERICAN FLAG ON PATRIOTIC STRIPED GROUND VINTAGE QUILT
- AMERICAN FLAG VINTAGE QUILT
- AMERICAN FLAGS CROCHET VINTAGE COVERLET
- AMERICAN HISTORY VIGNETTES VINTAGE QUILT, redwork, Ruby McKim pattern
- AMISH SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ANTIQUE QUILT, wool, green border
- ARCHIBALD DAVIDSON, ITHACA, NY ANTIQUE JACQUARD COVERLET
- BROKEN STARS ANTIQUE QUILT, early 19th c
- CARD SUITS ORIENTAL PRINT WORKS WHOLE CLOTH QUILT
- CIGAR RIBBONS ANTIQUE SILK QUILT
- DOUBLE DIAMONDS SUITING SWATCHES PIECED QUILT
- DOUBLE IRISH CHAIN PATRIOTIC ANTIQUE QUILT
- DOVE IN THE WINDOW VINTAGE QUILT
- FLAGS AND STORYBOOK ANTIQUE TRUNDLE QUILT
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIVE KERCHIEFS QUILT, reverses to Flags of the Nations........
- HABERDASHERY RIBBONS LOG CABIN ANTIQUE QUILT
- HOUSE ON THE HILL VINTAGE PIECED QUILT
- LINSEY-WOOLSEY FOUR-PATCH COUNTERPANE
- LOG CABIN 'STRAIGHT FURROW' ANTIQUE QUILT, Quaker
- LOMAX SISTERS WORLD GEOGRAPHY QUILT
- MAP QUILT of UNITED STATES AND MEXICO VINTAGE QUILT
- MARIAN CHEEVER WHITESIDE NEWTON VINTAGE CRIB QUILT
- MONUMENTAL HOUSE ANTIQUE QUILT, Sally Goforth, Weymouth NJ
- PATRIOTIC AUNT ELIZA'S STAR ANTIQUE QUILT
- PATRIOTIC BANNERS PIECED ANTIQUE COVERLET, WALL HANGING
- PINE BURR or PRAIRIE POINTS PIECED QUILT
- POSTAGE STAMP STRAIGHT FURROW ANTIQUE CRIB QUILT
- SOLDIER'S PATCHWORK MEDALLION DIAMOND CHAIN ANTIQUE QUILT
- STARRY BUNTING ANTIQUE CRIB QUILT
- STRING SQUARES ANTIQUE PIECED QUILT
- STYLIZED AMERICAN FLAG ANTIQUE QUILT
- TRAPUNTO CORDED WHITEWORK ANTIQUE QUILT, florals
- TRAPUNTO WHITEWORK ANTIQUE QUILT - WREATHS AND SERPENTINE ROWS
- TRAPUNTO WHITEWORK ANTIQUE SHAM OR TABLE COVER
- UNITED STATES SEALS EMBROIDERED ALBUM VINTAGE QUILT
- WORLD WAR I DOUGHBOY ANTIQUE CROCHET SPREAD
- WORLD WAR II SOUVENIR PILLOW FACES QUILT TOP
- STREAK OF LIGHTNING ANTIQUE QUILT, Perkioman Valley, PA
- 'CONTAINED CRAZY' SAMPLER ANTIQUE QUILT, AMERICAN FLAG
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIBLE STORIES APPLIQUE HANGING
- AMERICAN FLAGS 84 CIGAR FLANNELS ANTIQUE QUILT
- AMERICAN FLAGS ANTIQUE TRUNDLE QUILT
- AMERICAN FLAGS CROCHET BEDSPREAD
- AMISH ROMAN STRIPE, Holmes County, Ohio
- ARCHITECTURAL BORDER BIEDERWAND COVERLET PA
- BOWMANSVILLE STAR ANTIQUE QUILT, pieced squares, cotton
- CALIFORNIA SCENES PAINTED QUILT a prize winner
- CELEBRITY AUTOGRAPHS HISTORIC VINTAGE QUILT
- CENTENNIAL 1876 AMERICAN FLAGS COMMEMORATIVE ANTIQUE QUILT
- CENTENNIAL KERCHIEF 'TUMBLERS' ANTIQUE QUILT
- CHEROKEE EAGLE AND STAR VINTAGE QUILT
- CIGAR SILK RIBBONS ANTIQUE PIECED QUILT black and gold
- DIVIDED STAR FLAG BUNTING ANTIQUE QUILT
- EAGLE AND STARS CROSS-STITCH QUILT
- EAGLES AND HEARTS PA. BIEDERWAND ANTIQUE COVERLET
- FANS IN RADIANT 'LAYERS' ANTIQUE QUILT
- FLORAL WREATHS 9-BLOCK APPLIQUE ex. Sandra Mitchell
- FORTY-NINE STATES SEALS PATRIOTIC VINTAGE QUILT
- FOUR PATCH DIAMOND ANTIQUE QUILT, Chintz border, reds and white
- HAWAIIAN APPLIQUE ANTIQUE QUILT, peach
- HAWAIIAN APPLIQUE VINTAGE QUILT, rose and white
- HAWAIIAN CRIB QUILT
- MAP of the UNITED STATES AND CANADA ANTIQUE QUILT
- PATRIOTIC TUMBLING BLOCKS mini scale
- RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY CIVIL WAR ALBUM SAMPLER ANTIQUE QUILT
- SCHERENSCHNITTE APPLIQUE ANTIQUE QUILT, PA. Mennonite; museum piece
- SCHERENSCHNITTE SAMPLE PICTURE, cut by J.B. WALKER
- TOILE ONE-PATCH ON POINT
- TWO DONKEYS PIECED QUILT
- WHIRLING TULIPS Marie Webster pattern, 2 available
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CENTENNIAL 1876 AMERICAN FLAGS COMMEMORATIVE ANTIQUE QUILT
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| These 39-star flag kerchiefs were the printed commemoratives created to honor the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. They have a fascinating place in American history because a 39 state flag was never put to use| superceded by the admission of the 40th state| to the Union. One kerchief alone is rare and scarce. Described as "The'International Flag'... with an unofficial total of thirty-nine stars in its constellation| is notable not only for its canton-which contains six vertical "rows|" three with six stars and three with seven stars-but also for its border of small flags of the nations that were to attend the United States' hundredth birthday party. It brings to mind a flag carried by the printers of calico for the July 4| 1788| celebrations in Philadelphia; on that occasion the Stars and Stripes was surrounded by an edge of thirty-seven prints of various colors and carried the motto "May the Union government protect the manufacturers of America." (Mastai| "The Stars and the Stripes: The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present|" page 162) Said to reflect America's emergence as a world power| a bridge to East and West. American flag surrounded by 38 other nations' flags--Great Britain| France| Germany| Belgium| Holland| Switzerland| Russia| Austria| Denmark| Sweden| Norway| Italy| Spain| Portugal| Turkey| Siam| Tunis| Persia| Egypt| Brazil| Peru| Venezuela| Honduras| Guatemala| Ecuador| Bolivia| Nicaragua| Chili| Argentine| U.S. Columbia| Ireland| China| Japan| Morocco| Sandwich| Hayti| Liberia| and Mexico. Kerchief patented DEC 28. 1875"; 135-year-old rare flag ephemera. Centennial Exhibition held in Fairmount Park| Philadelphia. Historic because of the 39 stars flag| and also visually significant with its multiple imagery| a precursor to some works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Some dye bleed in one area from moisture.
| Price: | $ 9,500.00 | | Sku: | 10411 |
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