HENRY CLAY "SAME OLD COON" EXCEPTIONAL 1844 CAMPAIGN FLAG.
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Winning Bid:
$8,850.00
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Tuesday, June 29, 2021 9:00:00 PM)
Item Description
23x27" silk flag inscribed "The Same Old Coon Henry Clay And Frelinghuysen." The dominating central image features a nose-thumbing raccoon w/campaign poem below "The Moon Was Shining Silver Bright, The Stars With Glory Crowned The Night, High On A Rail 'That Same Old Coon', Was Singing To Himself This Tune. Clare De Kitchen Hurrah! Hurrah! For Henry Clay!" The lead slogan and imagery builds on the 1840 Whig campaign attempting to apply the everyman image enjoyed by W. H. Harrison to Clay. Canton has thirteen stars arranged in a circle around a large star at center. A complete horizontal separation between the 12th and 13th stripes was neatly sewn reattaching the three bottom stripes, long ago. Scattered losses and fabric separations most notably along top edge affecting two stars and a .5x1.5" vertical area on racoon's paw. Separations affecting the "ay" in "Clay" were stabilized on reverse w/brown paper many years ago and a hole at lower right has fabric stabilization on reverse. Just Good. The vibrant colors and just right size make this flag imminently displayable and some basic attention from a textile conservator combined w/proper framing will only improve the display presence of this impressive pre-civil war campaign textile.
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