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A STANDARD FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE WASHINGTON GUARDS, MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
A STANDARD FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE WASHINGTON GUARDS, MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
A STANDARD FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE WASHINGTON GUARDS, MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
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A STANDARD FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE WASHINGTON GUARDS, MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA

AMERICAN, CIRCA 1838

Details
A STANDARD FROM THE LIGHT INFANTRY REGIMENT OF THE WASHINGTON GUARDS, MASSACHUSETTS MILITIA
AMERICAN, CIRCA 1838
42 ½ x 47 ¾ in. (including frame)
Provenance
The Collection of Boleslaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange Mastai
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 2002, lot 124
Literature
Boleslaw and Marie-Louise D'Otrange Mastai, The Stars and the Stripes; The American Flag as Art and as History from the Birth of the Republic to the Present (Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1973), pp. 90-91.
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Lot Essay

This magnificent double-sided standard depicting both a Federal and State image was presented to the Washington Guards, a corps of Massachusetts militia which formed in 1810, on July 4, 1838. Finely rendered in oil colors on a silk ground, one side displays an eagle surrounded by twenty-six gilt stars representing the flag's age, while the other side depicts the coat of arms of the state of Massachusetts.
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