U.S. 33 Star Grand Luminary Flag.

33 Star U.S. Grand Luminary Flag, 1859 - 1861, former Harry Oswald Collection.
Grand Luminary star arrangement had been advocated for decades earlier as a star pattern for United states flags, and it still enjoyed great popularity at the beginning of the Civil War, as this home-made flag demonstrates.

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