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Technique: Painted
French Tole Bicorn Hat
Located in Essex, MA
Red painted and possibly a hat makers sign. With a chain strap and button.
Category
19th Century European Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
$1,250
19th Century Hand Painted Greek Orthodox Religious Icon Circa 1885
Located in Incline Village, NV
Offered is an authentic 19th century hand painted original icon; hand painted on a wooden panel; in completely all original condition with no touch up paint or restoration of any kin...
Category
1880s Turkish Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting Oil on Canvas by Pio Joris Important Italian Artist of the 19th centur
Located in Rome, IT
Pio Joris (Rome, 1843-1922).
The Via Flaminia, a Sunday morning," 1869, (winner of the Gold Medal Exhibition in Monaco, 1869)
with frame 160 x 83 cm.
Pio Joris attended the Istitu...
Category
19th Century Italian International Style Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Canvas
$52,271 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Antique 45-Star American Flag Hand-Painted on Cotton, Spanish-American War
Located in Doha, QA
This exceptional and exceedingly scarce 45-star American flag, commemorating Utah’s admission as the 45th state in 1896, represents one of the earliest surviving examples of a hand-p...
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Cotton, Glass, Wood, Paint
McKenney and Hall Hand-Painted Lithograph "Chippeway Widow", circa 1837
Located in Incline Village, NV
"Chippeway Widow" hand-painted color lithograph on paper depicts a Native American Indian woman lamenting the death of her husband, presum...
Category
1830s Native American Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Cast Iron Race Horse Bank by J
E Stevens Co. 1871
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century Cast Iron Race Horse Bank by J & E Stevens Co. 1871
USA, Circa 1871
This rare 19th-century cast iron Race Horse bank by J & E Stevens Co., pat...
Category
19th Century Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
Late 19th Century German Ceramic Beer Stein
Located in New York, NY
Steins with anti-Jewish images were very popular in late 19th century Germany. The constitution of the newly unified Germany, adopted in 1871, emancipated all Jews. The following dec...
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pewter
19th Century French Framed Miniature Portrait, Buxom Woman in Blue Bonnet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An early 19th century French hand-painted miniature portrait framed under glass, portraying an older woman wearing a bonnet tied with a blue ribbon, her ample bosom showing in a blue...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Natural Fiber
English
Country House
Private Post Box, circa 1925
Located in London, GB
A fantastic painted wooden English 'country house' private red post box likely to have been made for the lobby of a hotel, business, club or a country house. It would have been empti...
Category
1920s English Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Brass
Majolica Wall Decoration Plate by Johann Maresch, Austria, circa 1900
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This offer is for one of our rare Majolica items, an exceptional wall plate by Johann Maresch from the beginning of the 20th century. The beautiful worked Majolica plate shows Rhine. Like every J. Maresch items the artist took great value...
Category
Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Majolica
Japanese Antique Wood Juicer, Ric.00033
Located in Norton, MA
Japanese made entirely from wood, this antique was used mainly as a juicer for fruits.
L:25in(63.5cm) H:16in(40.6cm).
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
George H W Bush 1991 double signed letter
By A. Ramsay
Located in San Francisco, CA
Spectacular 1991 handwritten on White House, stationary George Herbert Walker Bush letter. The letter discusses the gulf war and is double signed second signature is just signed Geor...
Category
1990s American American Classical Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
"O-HYA-WA-MINCE-KEE, "Chippewa Chief" McKenney
Hall Hand Painted Litho C.1843
Located in Incline Village, NV
Completely original and full page folio from the McKenney and Hall iconic three volume series "Indian Tribes of North America"; which seeks to document and memorialize 120 Indians...
Category
1840s American Native American Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Jenny Lind Rare Printed and Hand Painted Pot Lid Attributed to Ridgway
By J
W Ridgway
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and rare English potlid believed to depict Jenny Lind and attributed to Ridgway and dating from around 1850. The lid is printed with a lady seated in a garden landscape in a rather elegant white ball gown...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pottery
17th Century Italian Ballot Voting Urn Carved Blue and Red Painted Wood
Located in Milano, MI
Antique Italian ballot urn shaped wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, Monte San Savino near Arezzo in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 17th century wooden voting box...
Category
Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pine
19th Century Italian Voting Box Tuscan Confraternity Carved Barrel Ballot Box
Located in Milano, MI
19th century Italian Confraternity Voting Urn of Tuscan origin realized with turned and carved poplar wood. The barrel-shaped central body, in which hands were inserted to insert the ballot ball into one of the two holes connected to the small drawer below, where on the front we find the inscription YES and NO related to voting, SI and NO, in order to distinguish for and against votes on paper, then collected in two separate small drawers, just below. Standing on four curly feet, it has a beautiful curved handle and carved parts at both ends, highlighted by ebonized details.
In a fraternity, this ballot box was used to collegially adjudicate community choices. In good age related condition, with sogns of wear and use. This antique Italian ballot wooden box, carved and painted, coming from Tuscany, in Central Italy. This ballot urn is an excellent example of a 19th century wooden voting box...
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Poplar
1950s Reach Stroehmann Sunbeam Bread Store Display Sign Rare Vintage Advertising
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A very rare advertising campaign tin tacker sign. 'Reach for Stroehmann's Sunbeam Bread.' A single sided tin (SST) embossed sign. Marked Q.B.A. Coop I...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
1940s Shelton Pharmacy Nebraska Painted Tin Sign Kreso Dip No.1 Vintage Medicine
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful condition. From an original 1940s location of Shelton Pharmacy in Shelton Nebraska. Which seems to still be in business, atleast in name form, according to online searches....
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
French Hand Painted Porcelain Plate Ceremonial Masonic Plate from Moustiers
Located in Miami, FL
Hand painted Masonic ceremonial plate signed Moustiers.
In perfect condition, signed Meret a Moustiers.
Measurements: 10" Diameter x 1" High
Category
20th Century French Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Porcelain
Masonic Ceremonial Hand-Painted Plate Signed Moustiers
Located in Miami, FL
Hand-painted Masonic ceremonial plate signed Bondil a Moustiers.
Perfect condition.
Measures: 8 1/4" diam. x 1" H
Category
20th Century French Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Porcelain
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Swiss Oil Painting of the Legend of William Tell
Located in Stamford, CT
19th century miniature Swiss oil painting on tin depicting the Legend of William Tell. Showing William Tell on bent knee aiming the crossbow at hi...
Category
Early 19th Century Swiss Romantic Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
Unusual Crystal Palace Band Competition Painted Glass Certificate of Merit 1883
Located in Bishop
s Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very unusual, possibly unique, historical Certificate of Merit awarded at the drum and pipe band contest held at Crystal Palace between 1880 and 1883 and awarded in 1883. The certificate is hand-painted on a rectangular sheet of milk glass and is painted as a hanging cloth banner...
Category
1880s English Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Milk Glass
Romanoff Arms of the Russian Empire Embassy or Consulate Painted Sign
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Early Embassy or Consulate painted sign. Sign says Legation Imperiale de Russie, this sign was used from 1850 to 1917, it is very rare to find these things with the Russian Empire Ca...
Category
1850s Russian Art Nouveau Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
19th Century Black Painted Leather French Primitive Fire Helmet Casque Pompier
Located in Haarlem, NL
19th century black painted leather French fire helmet with painted logo with what looks like a 'French Lily' and three hooked lines
Made out of one...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Leather
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 19th Century Framed French Miniature Portrait, Woman in Lace Cap
Collar
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An early 19th century French hand-painted miniature portrait, framed under glass, portraying an older woman wearing a lace bonnet and a floral dress with a lace collar, reflecting th...
Category
Early 19th Century French French Provincial Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Natural Fiber
KPM Porcelain Painting of Franz Josef of Austria in Ornate Giltwood Frame
Located in Savannah, GA
This detailed KPM porcelain plaque features a painting of Franz Joseph and is beautifully accentuated by a wide ornate antique giltwood frame. The porcelain circle measures seven and...
Category
Early 1900s German Baroque Revival Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
$972 Sale Price
34% Off
President William McKinley as Napoleon Large Toby Mug, by Morris
Willmore
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
President William McKinley as Napoleon Large Toby Mug, by Morris & Willmore
Made by Columbian Art Pottery / Morris and Willmore of Trenton, New Jersey
This ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pottery
$942 Sale Price
20% Off
1830 Watercolor and Gouache Painted Vignettes of Eastern Entertainers
Located in Savannah, GA
The caption of this charming pen and ink, watercolor and gouache vignette reads
"A troupe of Eastern Entertainers taken from diary of G. Copeland 1830."
Perhaps a rememberance from...
Category
1830s English Grand Tour Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Silk, Glass, Paint, Paper
$440 Sale Price
42% Off
Pair of Early 19th Century Georgian Pinewood Oil-Painted Dummy Boards
Located in Chicago, IL
Early 19th Century Georgian Pair of Dummy Boards. Pinewood with oil-painted fine details. Charming and scarce pieces, it took the owner a couple of years to find them. There is no ag...
Category
Early 19th Century English Early Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pine, Paint
Two Metal Copper Plates Souvenir of Germany
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Two metal copper plates Souvenir of Germany.
One of Cologne, Koln.
Cologne is a major cultural centre for the Rhineland; it hosts more than 30 museums and hundreds of galleries. Exhibitions range from local ancient Roman archeological sites to contemporary graphics and sculpture,
The other one of Aachen, Aachen is the westernmost city in Germany, located near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, 61 km (38 mi) west of Cologne[8][9] in a former coal-mining area.[9] One of Germany's leading institutes of higher education in technology,
Each one is numbered.
Handcrafted and hand painted with cast famous German monuments of each city.
Copper with blue sky and some green trees.
Dimensions:
Large oval plate: 9" W x 6.75" H x 0.50" D.
Smaller oval plate: 7.5" W x 5" H x 0.50" D.
The oval cast copper souvenir plates...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Arts and Crafts Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Copper
Presidential Firescreen or Garden Grate, Truman Little White House, Key West, FL
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Presidential outdoor firescreen or garden grate Truman Little White House, Key West, FL
A rare find, with medallions of Dolphins, Palm trees, Bald Eagle a...
Category
20th Century American Hollywood Regency Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Aluminum
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Grand Tour Souvenir Dactyl Library Book 36 Plaster Casts Rome 1840-50
Located in Munich, DE
This wonderful dactyl library in the shape of a book contains 36 plaster casts with the corresponding handwritten legends on the insides of both book covers.
Category
1840s Italian Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plaster, Paper
1820s Tyrolean Tole Polychrome-Painted Tin Man Colonial Gentleman Figure
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Very rare painted metal figure. Absolutely stunning. It stands up fine and displays well. 14 inches tall. German or Italian made. In poor vintage condition; one foot is completel...
Category
1830s European Early Victorian Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
$2,236 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Painted Bamboo Walking Stick, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century walking stick from northern China is comprised of a length of thin bamboo that has been steamed and bent into a hook shape. The bamboo segments are painted in alter...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Folk Art Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Bamboo
17th/18th Century Queen Anne Letters Patent on Vellum with Partial Great Seal
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a Queen Anne letters patent on vellum with a partial Great Seal and beautifully detailed portrait of the Queen. This document dates to the late 17th or early 18th c...
Category
Late 17th Century English Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Other
Art Deco Era "Exhibit
s Contact" Military Aircraft Pinball Machine Back Glass
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This vintage back glass was made by Exhibits of the United States and titled "Contacts" in 1939 in the period Art Deco style. This back glass depicts bi-planes flying around an aircr...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass
Fred Lundy CA Great Depression Cartoon Illustration, circa 1938
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare original cartoon illustration by listed American cartoonist Fred Lundy.
Fred Ralph Lundy (1902-1989) studied art at the University of Oregon before moving to California in 1924. Following further study at the CCAC, he was an artist with the Oakland Tribune from 1935-1935 and an editorial cartoonist for the San Francisco Examiner from 1935 until retirement in 1976. His cartoons appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Esquire, New Yorker, and other national magazines. He died in Daly City...
Category
Early 20th Century American Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern Folk Art Eno Antacid Advertising Sign
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This advertising sign was made during the 1960s in the Mid-Century Modern style and likely originates from South Africa. The sign is a combination of a professionally made molded, and silk screened plastic advertisement, which has been crudely mounted to a framed piece of pegboard with Styrofoam board in between. There is also a very light cord, presumably from a battery operated light...
Category
Mid-20th Century South African Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Plastic, Wood
Mid-Century Royal Trust Company Framed Wall Plaque with Indigenous Chief
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This wall plaque is unsigned with respect to the maker, but it is presumed to have been made in Canada in approximately 1950 in a traditional style. The plaque is composed of a very ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian American Classical Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Spelter
West Point Military Academy Trompe L’oeil Watercolor Graduating Class 1855
Located in Milford, NH
A nicely detailed trompe l’oeil watercolor on paper of a collage of autographs and scenes from the graduating class of the US Military Academy at West Point, 1855, attributed to Fran...
Category
1850s American Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paper
19th Century Funerary Funeral Hatchment Sir Henry Oglander Memento Mori Curio
Located in Lowestoft, GB
19th Century Funerary Hatchment for Sir Henry Oglander, 7th Baronet of Nunwell
Azure ground shows, a stork between three cross-croslets fitchee or,...
Category
19th Century English Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Canvas, Pine
French Educational Atlas Geographique Puzzle Box with Maps, Dated 1903
Located in Dallas, TX
This early 20th century French educational game is presented in its original decorative box, titled Atlas Géographique. Printed in Paris by Imprimerie Dufrénoy and dated 5–03 (May 19...
Category
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
1950s Gates Vulco Belts Vintage Painted Tin Sign or Sales Display Ratrod Garage
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Heavily Oxidized Painted Metal Sign, Faded Graphics, but a nice even fade. It is very tall for Wall Hanging Display or Leaning against a wall, at 55.75 inches high. Structurally th...
Category
1950s American Industrial Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Steel
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Milton Glaser
Am., 1929 -2020
Sword Swallower, Painting Le Cirque Ny
Located in Bridgeport, CT
From pasta primavera to world-renowned decadent desserts, Le Cirque's ubiquitous reputation for presenting its fine dining fare with whimsy and fun, landed it on the map of must-dine destinations in New York for glitterati and foodies alike. No matter the location, monkeys and circus themes remained a design staple of the iconic restaurant. Although the landmark restaurant's NYC doors are now closed, We are pleased to offer items from the famed restaurant.
Sword Swallower - Large Original Mural on...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Mid-20th Century Tin Charity Container by Alfred Zaltsman, Jerusalem
Located in New York, NY
The front of the box is inscribed with Hebrew and German: "Rabbi Meir Baal Ha' Ness charity collecting funds for Shomrei Ha' Chomot Kolel" and decorated with two images; Hatam Sofer ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Israeli Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Investiture Chair Designed by Lord Snowden for Prince Charles 1969
By Remploy
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This chair was designed by Lord Snowden in 1969 and produced by Remploy for the Investiture ceremony of Prince Charles, and done in the period Mid-Cetury Modern style. The chair is made of ash with a bentwood back and painted in a bright red with Prince of Wales styled feathers on the back in gilt. These chairs are known as 'investiture chairs...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wool, Bentwood
Midcentury Era Chesterfield Cigarette Metal Tobacciana Advertising Sign
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This midcentury period embossed and painted tin advertising sign was made for the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company in circa 1965 to promote their Chesterfield cigarette...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Four Antique American Car or Automobile Association
Membership Grill Badges
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This grouping of four metal automobile grill badges are all unmarked with respect to their respective maker, but presumed to have been made in the United S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
Pair of Antique South African Railway Cast Iron Locomotive Plaques or Badges
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This large and substantial pair of cast and cold-painted locomotive identification plaques show no foundry marks, but are presumed to have been cast in South Africa in circa 1910. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century South African Edwardian Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron
A Charity Container For Jewish Institute for the Blind by Alfred Saltzman, 1930
Located in New York, NY
A charity container for the Jewish Institute for the Blind by Alfred Saltzman from Jerusalem in 1930 reflects the efforts to support education and welfare for visually impaired indiv...
Category
1930s Israeli Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Tin
Mid-Century Modern British Ilford Selo Photography Film Store Display
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This store display was made for the English film manufacturer, Ilford to advertise their Selo film line during the 1960s in the period Mid-Century Modern style. The frame of the disp...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal
A Wooden Gavel Presented to Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society, New York, 1884
Located in New York, NY
A Unique Wooden Gavel, Presented to Chebra Rofei Cholim Krakauer Society in New York, 1884.
This wooden Gavel has a long baluster handle and a thick circular body with a dedicatory ...
Category
1880s Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Wood
Large English Country House 19thC Oil on Board Armorial Coat of Arms Coach Panel
Located in Lowestoft, GB
An early 19th century
coach panel, larger than the norm, oil on board of an armorial centred by a typical shield, drapes and a warriors arm holding a s...
Category
19th Century English Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Hardwood
Goodyear Panoramic Factory Print with Gouache by Woodbury
Co, Worcester MA
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed panoramic ink print with gouache of the Goodyear factory in the early 20th century done by Woodbury & Co, of Worcester, Massachusetts. This company was known for th...
Category
20th Century American Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
An Early 20th Century Sign for Rav Naftali Horowitz , Boro Park, New York
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th-century sign for Rav Naftali Horowitz in Boro Park, New York for the diverse Jewish population who emigrated to New York in that period.
Painted in green, black, and o...
Category
Early 20th Century American Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Hardwood
Sha
arei Tzedek Hospital Charity Container , by Alfred Saltzman Jerusalem, 1930
Located in New York, NY
A charity container for the Sha'arei Tzedek Hospital designed by Alfred Saltzman from Jerusalem in 1930 reflects the efforts to support healthcare and charitable initiatives in the e...
Category
1930s Israeli Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Metal, Tin
Pair of Porcelain Apothecary Jars
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This a pair of wide cylindrical white porcelain apothecary lidded jars. They are hand painted and decorated with some laurel’s branches in the front. The lids are shaped as doctoral ...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Neoclassical Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Porcelain
$880 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Erie County New York Judges
Police Conference Portable Lecturn or Podium
Bag
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
The maker of this lecturn is unknown, but presumed to have originated from the United States and date to approximately 1965. The podium is composed of pine boards and playwood with h...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Pine
Early 20th Century Israeli Iron and Enamel Street Sign
Located in New York, NY
Three languages iron and enamel street sign, circa 1920.
The sign was made for 58 street in the city of Haifa. The three languages indicate the sig...
Category
1920s Vintage Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Iron, Enamel
Hand-Painted 19th Century Banner with the 1867 Proposed Seal of Illinois
Located in York County, PA
HAND-PAINTED 19TH CENTURY BANNER WITH AN 1867 VERSION OF THE SEAL OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, PROPOSED IN THAT YEAR BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, BUT IN A VARIATION NEVER FORMALLY ADOPTED
Banner with the Illinois State Seal, in a rare variation of the design, never adopted. In 1867 Illinois Secretary of State Sharon Tyndale proposed that the phrases in the state motto be reversed. In the wake of the Civil War, (which ended in 1865,) Tyndale suggested that the verbiage be changed from "State Sovereignty--National Union" to "National Union--State Sovereignty,” which made sense given the recent secession of the Southern States, which placed their own interests first. Illinois' own Abraham Lincoln had worked hard to preserve national interests, echoed here in the altering of the language. Though Tyndale’s suggestion was rejected, he was nonetheless charged with creating a new design, which he did and was soon adopted. This displayed the dates of "1818," when Illinois became a state, and "1868," when the seal was officially changed. Interestingly enough, Tyndale did manage to send a message in the new version by turning the word “sovereignty” upside-down , with the surmised explanation that this fit accordingly with the orientation / position of the streamer.
The banner is beautifully hand-painted on muslin and retains its original staff. The shape is beautifully scalloped at the bottom edge, which is painted to look as if there is an applied fringe. Most of the elements are congruent with the 1868 version, but there are various differences. Set within a shield-shaped medallion—usually circular—is the expected eagle in a side view, spread wing pose with beak uplifted. The eagle is supposed to be perched upon a rock with one talon, while gripping a Federal shield in the other. Here there is no rock and both talons grip the shield, which displays 13 stars. Note the date of "1867" and Tyndale's preferred order of the wording on the billowing ribbon in the eagle's beak. The foreground of the official design is all grass. Here there are olive branches—a peacetime reference appropriate for a country recovering from war—on a grassy area, set upon a sandy shore before Lake Michigan, with a rising sun on the horizon.
Mounting: The banner was mounted and framed within our own conservation department, which is led by masters degree trained staff. We take great care in the mounting and presentation of flags and have preserved thousands of examples; more than anyone worldwide.
The background is 100% cotton twill, black in color. The mount was placed in a black-painted, hand-gilded and distressed Italian molding. A shadowbox was created to accommodate the staff. The glazing is U.V. protective plexiglass. Feel free to contact us for more details.
Banner - 49" x 56.5"
Frame - 67.75" x 59.25"
About Jeff R. Bridgman Antiques, Inc.:
As an advisor to top museums and collectors alike, Jeff Bridgman is the world's leading expert and source for antique American flags and political textiles...
Category
1860s American Antique Painted Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Cotton
Price Upon Request
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