National Flag of France formerly flown over the Eiffel Tower.
This woolen French flag was formerly part of the collection of Wall Street financier, business man and promoter of Anglo-American goodwill; Calvin Bullock. His 1 Wall Street offices in New York City contained a world leading collection of memorabilia pertaining to Napoleon & Lord Nelson. In the 1930's he sought to collect Confederate Flags and during World War II he acquired an important collection of US, British, French and other allied ensigns from his many international and important military and naval acquaintances. After his death in 1944 his son, Mr. Hugh Bullock, kept the flags on display as a memorial to his late father.

According to its documentation, this flag flew on the Eiffel tower and was a gift to Calvin Bullock from his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Hugh Bullock. Born Marie Leóntine Graves from American parents in Paris, she married Calvin Bullock's son Hugh in 1933 after completing her education at the Sorbonne.

How or when this flag flew on the Eiffel Tower is unknown. Since Calvin Bulloch died in June of 1944, it is unlikely that this flag was acquired during the Liberation of Paris in August of 1944 and subsequently presented to him. It is more likely that it was acquired on a trip to Paris by Marie Bullock, before WWII, and was kept as a memento for her father-in-law, a well known Francophile.

Provenance: Acquired by private sale from Bullock descendants

ZFC Significant Flag
Item is Framed

Sources:


Marie Bullock, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 10 October 2011, from: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1938

Eaton, Leslie, November 08, 1996 ,Hugh Bullock, Pioneer in Managing Mutual Funds, Dies at 98, The New York Times, from:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/08/nyregion/hugh-bullock-pioneer-in-managing-mutual-funds-dies-at-98.html

Kimmins, Anthony, Half-Time, William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1948.

Image Credits:
Zaricor Flag Collection