U.S. Flag Pole & Spear - Coal Exchange Reg.

The Howard Michael Madaus sub-collection of Civil War Military Flags was assembled from a variety of sources over a thirty year period of collecting (1970-2000) before being acquired by the Zaricor Collection in 2000. The sub-collection attempts to present an example of each of the major types of depot contractor regulation flags and colors carried by Union forces at the basic unit level, i.e. regiment, battalion, company, and battery, as well as the types of general military flags.

This sub-collection (Howard Michael Madaus collection) added to the Zaricor Civil War collection is the largest and (while not complete) most comprehensive collection of the military flags carried by the Union Army during the Civil War outside of state repositories designated by the War Department for the disposition of these flags after the War or in public museum collections. In fact this private collection is larger and more comprehensive than many of the public museum collections in the United States.

This pole is the companion to ZFC0460 Infantry national color, it is 120 long. It was acquired from Mr. Joseph DiVito in 1976 who identified it as the staff for the regimental color of the 51st Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Regiment.

These are accessories for a "Stand of Colors". The Madaus collection of American Civil War Flags also includes flag staffs, cords & tassels, and flag slings. The collection includes six Civil War identified flag staffs, six sets of cords & tassels- four of Civil War vintage and two from a later period, and twenty variations of flag slings and belts, dating from before the war, throughout the Civil War and on into the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Provenance:
• U.S. National Color - New York Quartermaster Depot.
• Acquired by trade with Chicago area arms dealer, Arbold Marcus Chernoff, 1974.
• Ex-Madaus Collection #2
• Acquired by ZFC by Private Sale from the Madaus Flag Collection, 2000