$9,450
Estimate: $6,000 - $8,000
American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts
Auction: November 15, 2022 12:00 PM EDT
With hand-sewn double appliqued cotton stars arranged in a ring of 11 stars enclosing a larger single star on a two-part wool bunting canton, machine-sewn wool bunting stripes, the canvas header retains a cotton label inscribed in ink "William F. Witherell" and is fitted with three brass grommets.
70 in. x 100 in.Provenance
Collection of Jeffrey Kenneth Kohn, MD
This flag belonged to businessman and entrepreneur, William Frank Witherell (1839-1912). A native of New York, Witherell was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. After the Civil War Witherell joined his uncle, W.H.H. Witherell, a New Orleans merchant and broker, as a wholesaler of hides and leather. In the 1870's, Witherell became active in mining in California, Colorado and Arizona and laterserved as superintendent of the Arivaca Milling, Mining & Commercial Company. Some of Witherell's papers may be found in Special Collections, Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University.