Time Magazine 7th July 1980

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NATIONAL TREASURES
Time Magazine 7 July 1980
ZFC2585 This Time cover heralds the magazine’s lead article “Rediscovering America.” Featured are six flags now in the Zaricor Flag Collection - including two original 13 star U.S. flags. Read more
ZFC0679 13 Star U.S. Navy Masthead Pennant, 1870’s. Large pennants are very rare, and this pennants appearance on the 7 July 1980 issue of “Time Magazine,” surely makes it unique. Its large dimensions and details of production date it to the mid 19th century. Read more ZFC0715 13 Star U.S. Flag - Revolutionary & Early Federal Period. This flag is one of one of a few known Revolutionary era flags with the stars arranged in a single ring around a larger center star. Contemporary illustrations from the 1780s indicate that the 13 stars were often arranged as a circle of 12 around a single central star. Read more
ZFC0624 13 Star U.S. Flag, Revolutionary & Early Federal Period. Believed to be one of the oldest surviving 13 Star flags from the early period of American history, this flag, from Salem, MA, bears blue stars on white, and reverses the traditional motifs. The placement of blue stars on a white canton is extremely rare. Read more ZFC0631 34 Star U.S. Flag, 1861 - 1863, “Snowflakes Flag.” This 34 star U.S. flag bears an extremely unusual, perhaps unique, star field. The five clusters, of six stars each, and the four accent stars at each outer edge of the canton are actually unexplained. They have been variously interpreted. Read more
ZFC0677 45 Stars U.S. Flag - 1st N.Y. Engineers, John R. Thompson - Spanish American War - Capture of Puerto Rico, 1898. Officer Thompson, of the 2nd Battalion's Company K, took this flag with him and inscribed it with the names of the various locations where the unit encamped in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. Read more ZFC0611 U.S. 34 Star guidon from the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers. A significant Company “L” guidon from the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers who fought in Florida in February of 1864 capturing a Confederate artillery battle flag as well as a Stars and Bars camp flag during the Civil War. Read more