EXCEPTIONAL "THE FLAG OF CHAPPAQUA GREELEY & BROWN" MINIATURE CLOTH FLAG WITH COMPLETE EPHEMERA SET.
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Starting Bid:
$5,750.00
(Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, November 15, 2016 10:00:00 PM)
Item Description
1.5x2" cloth flag on a 3-1/8" long staff, 5x8" paper certificate and a 2.5x4-3/8" envelope. Certificate is folded into fourths providing protection to the flag when in the envelope. Envelope features a woodcut portrait of Greeley and reads "'The Flag Of Chappaqua.'" Flag has 37 stars in the canton arranged in a medallion pattern w/one large star at center and additional text on fly end reading "The Flag Of Victory!" Certificate notes that "The Staff Of This Flag Is From the Farm Of Hon. Horace Greeley, And From The Choppings And Prunings By The Philosopher's Own Hand." Three statements at bottom each w/facsimile signature at conclusion include: first noting that "H.A. Grahm" has sole authority to use brushwood for "Campaign Badges And Flagstaffs" signed by Greeley; second a statement recommending "The Flag Of Chappaqua" by the Chairman of the "National Committee Of The Liberal Republican Party" signed Ethan Allen and last certifying that the Staff is from Greeley's farm signed by H. A. Grahm. The last statement on the certificate reads "The Flag May Be Attached To The Clothing By A Stitch At Top And Bottom Of The Staff" thus making this not only a campaign flag but a badge. A trivial light vertical fold in the cloth flag and minor overall handling wear to the certificate and envelope. NM. For all intents and purposes the condition is un-improvable. Greeley flags are prohibitively rare and thinking in terms of 1872 campaign badges it's not difficult to argue that this is among the top Greeley badges produced. Only one other example has ever surfaced. That example was incomplete, lacking the original envelope, and sold in excess of $12,000. This is an extraordinary opportunity to obtain the only complete set extant.
More about Horace Greeley- Journalist, Congressman, Farmer, Publisher, Author, Statesman, Presidential Candidate and so on. Greeley was a true renaissance man. Known best as the founder of The New York Tribune and for his 1872 presidential campaign Greeley was also a noted farmer publishing a book on the topic, What I Know About Farming, in 1871 drawing on his childhood experiences and those gained at his Chappaqua, New York estate. He was also a major supporter of Henry David Thoreau serving as his literary agent and ensuring his work was published. Through the New York Tribune he employed such luminaries as John Hay, Whitelaw Reid and Mark Twain. He started in politics as a Whig and played an important role in William Henry Harrison's 1840 election to the Presidency. He served three months in the House of Representatives in 1848-1849 representing New York's Sixth District when David S. Jackson was unseated because of election fraud. While in Congress he introduced legislation for a homestead act. The theme of settling the American West provided his hallmark phrase "Go West Young Man, And Grow Up With The Country." In 1854 he helped found and is often credited with naming the Republican Party. He supported Lincoln during the Civil War and was an early and adamant figure urging the President to abolish slavery. He broke from the Republican Party over perceived corruption in Ulysses S. Grant's administration and founded the Liberal Republican Party accepting their nomination for the Presidency in 1872. His landslide defeat and efforts to unseat him as publisher of the Tribune in the aftermath of the election proved overwhelming. Greeley passed away only three weeks after his electoral defeat. A mountain of a historical figure, his work will be studied by history, political and media scholars for generations to come.
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