Massachusetts Commonwealth Color Flag Pole 1888.

Pole for Early Version of Massachusetts Commonwealth Color State Flag, 1888
This is the pole to an early version of the Massachusetts State Flag, predating the "official" adoption by at least two years. This silk presentation flag has 2 1/2" golden yellow silk military style fringe, and may in fact be a state flag intended for militia use

From Edward A. White in Memory of his brother Richard F. White 16th Regiment Mass. Volunteer July 1888"

Companion to Flag is ZFC0517

ZFC Significant Flag

Provenance:
Presented to Edward A. White, 1888.
Acquired by Norm Flayderman.
Flayderman Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL, until 1997.
Sold via Butterfields & Butterfields, San Francisco, CA, to the Zaricor Flag Collection 1997.


Sources:

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Massachusetts (U.S.), Flags of the World, 13 November 2011, from:
http://flagspot.net/flags/us-ma.html

Sixteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Acton Memorial Library
Civil War Archives, 12 November 2011, from: http://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/civilwar/Regiments/Mass/16MVI.htm

McCandless, Byron, Gilbert Grosvenor, editor, Flags of the World, Washington, D.C., National Geographic society, 1917.

Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection

Hoist & Fly
Width of Hoist	37
Length of Fly	1.75

Frame
Is it framed?	no

Stars
Are there stars on obverse?	no
Are there stars on reverse?	no

Stripes
Has a Blood Stripe?	no

Documentation
Documents
Drawings	All original documents and drawings are held in the Zaricor Flag Collection Archives.

Condition
Displayable	no

Date
Date	circa 1880's