Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

12-C Maine Antique Digest, March 2017

AUCTION -

12-C

American flag made during the Civil War by Charles Gilman, 6th

Ohio Infantry, while held as a prisoner of war, hand painted on a

rough piece of canvas likely cut from a flour or meal bag, having

seven red stripes, 33 stars in the blue canton, approximately 6½" x

12", signed, $3360.

Civil War folk art hand-carved pipe, lettered

“Battle / of / Antietam / Sept 17 1862” and with

tapered and fluted motifs, bowl 1¾" high, overall

3½" wide, $2400.

Civil War folk art hand-carved pipe,

neatly lettered “Bull / Run / July 21 /

1861” and featuring leaves, the bowl

3" high, overall 3¾" wide, small crack,

chips, scratches, and nicks, $1680.

Civil War folk art hand-carved pipe, lettered for the

2nd New Hampshire Volunteers, having a design of

an American shield, banner, leaves, and scrolls, sil-

ver bowl rim and shank, bowl 2

" high, overall 3½"

wide, unfinished and somewhat primitive, $1920.

Civil War folk art hand-carved pipe, lettered for Cap-

tain Belger’s Battery F, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

and “Bridge / near Winton / N.C. / July 30 / ’63,” bowl

1¾" high, overall 2½" wide, stem broken off, nicks and

scratches, $1680.

Civil War broadside illustrated with patriotic motifs

of a U.S. flag by a cannon, a spread-winged eagle with

a federal shield, and Abraham Lincoln with a flag, let-

tered “There are now but Two Parties in this Country,

the Friends and the Enemies of the Government…,”

printed in red, blue, and black, 11" x 12½", credits

to Gibson House and Wrightson and Co. Printers of

Cincinnati, inked inscription “To intimidate those who

begin to ask when will all this end & where are we

drifting,” toning, light soiling, linen backing, $2460.

Armor from a Confederate ironclad, lettered

“Armor from Confederate Ironclad Virginia

Formerly U.S.S.

Merrimac

,” the 2.8-pound

block measuring 3" x 1

" x 1

", wear and

spotting, $1920.

Civil War Massachusetts recruitment

banners attached to a U.S. flag, late

1863, 51" x 27", the flag with wear and

tearing, banners with splitting, stains

to all, $4200.

This wooden folk art clock was finely carved by

German prisoner of war E.S. Schwietert in the shape

of an eagle perched atop a wreath on a base with a

carving depicting the S.S.

Columbus

. The clock face

is lettered “Fort Stanton / New Mexico” and “1942.”

The base also has a working light. The whole is 25"

high x 9" wide and sold for $1800. Fort Stanton was

established in 1855 as a military post to control the

Mescalero Apaches. In 1939 it served as a detention

center for more than 400 German nationals taken

from the luxury liner

Columbus

when it was scuttled

outside of New York to prevent its capture by the

British. Once the United States entered World War II

in 1941, Fort Stanton became an official POW camp.

This red silk naval ensign, English, 1800-50, 31" x 40", has soil-

ing, holes, and losses to the fabric and sold for $5100. The catalog

noted, “In 1801, Ireland joined with Great Britain to form the

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which resulted in

the Union Jack being added to the canton along with St. Patrick’s

Cross. In 1854, the Merchant Shipping Act specified that the Red

Ensign was the appropriate flag for a British merchantman. The

provision was repeated in subsequent British shipping legislation.

Until 1864, the Red Ensign was the primary ensign of the Royal

Navy, and worn by ships of the Red Squadron of the navy, as well

as by unassigned warships. A previous owner relates that this flag

was from one of Lord Nelson’s ships, used during the Battle of

Trafalgar, although no documentation accompanies the flag to

confirm this. The battle occurred in 1805, making the flag design

appropriate for the period.”