Lincoln / Hamlin Wide Awake Portrait Campaign Flag
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Lincoln / Hamlin Wide Awake Portrait Campaign Flag
Red, white, and blue printed, cotton flag banner, 11 x 17 in., featuring blue and white abstract likeness of Lincoln, with legend: Lincoln & Hamlin in blue; Wide Awake over portrait. With 13 stars in white against blue field. Field of flag is printed on right side instead of usual upper left. Portrait is based on lithograph by W.H. Reese with modified hair style. (See Collins, Threads of History, 1979: fig. 301.)
Provenance: Estate of Kenneth Erwin
Red, white, and blue printed, cotton flag banner, 11 x 17 in., featuring blue and white abstract likeness of Lincoln, with legend: Lincoln & Hamlin in blue; Wide Awake over portrait. With 13 stars in white against blue field. Field of flag is printed on right side instead of usual upper left. Portrait is based on lithograph by W.H. Reese with modified hair style. (See Collins, Threads of History, 1979: fig. 301.)
Provenance: Estate of Kenneth Erwin
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With some soiling throughout flag, especially along right and left sides; with some black smudges as well, mostly concentrated in top left corner; with small vertical tear along top right edge of flag.
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Lincoln / Hamlin Wide Awake Portrait Campaign Flag
Estimate $10,000 - $15,000
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