$5,843
Thirty-four-star Flag of General J. K. Weaver, c. 1861-63, hand-sewn blue wool bunting canton with thirty-four white cotton stars, red and white wool bunting machine sewn strips, hoist in red, white, and blue cotton and written in black in pen Gen. J.K. Weaver , ht. 49, lg. 87 in. Provenance: From the collection of the Valley Forge Historical Society. Note: With this flag are copies of the donation correspondence, including a note about the flag: "my mother and two of her friends made/the flag entirely by hand./it was used at Durham/Iron Works during the war/used as a decoration at the/Sanitary Fair of Philadelphia/& was used draped with/black for President Lincoln/and President Garfield/since then it has been/packed away."
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-10-30
