My Aisling: 13-star Flag for sale

Sunday, May 31, 2009

13-star Flag for sale

SOLD - SOLD - SOLD ... thanks, folks

This flag came into the family, and can't be dated clearly. First, the stripes seem to be machine sewn. Second, there are grommets on the left side. Probably not, therefore, true Revolutionary Period. Most likely one of those late 1800s flags.

The known history is that it was given to a mother when she was young. 1930s. The giver was a recent widow who was born around 1850. Her husband was a Merchant Marine. The story is that this flag was flown on an MM ship. It clearly shows wear.

It measures approximately 54 inches by 36 inches.

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Wise words: Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

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Aisling: (Irish: aislinn; pronounced ASH-ling): A vision poem.

In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman).
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