Time Magazine 7 July 1980
This Time magazine cover heralds the lead article of the issue, Rediscovering America. Americans have constantly altered how they see their collective, part reality and part mythical, past. Featured are on the cover are significant American flag images, six of which are now a part of the ZFC.Back to Tours
More info »Time Magazine, 7 July 1980.Time Magazine, 7 July 1980. This issue of Time Magazine features six of the most significant flags of the Zaricor Flag Collection. They are: ZFC0611, ZFC0624, ZFC0631, ZFC0677, ZFC0679, ZFC0715.
More info »U.S. Navy 13 Star Masthead Commission Pennant.13 Star U.S. Navy Masthead Pennant, 1870's - former Mastai Collection. Large pennants are very rare, and this pennants appearance on the 7 July 1980 issue of "Time Magazine," surely makes it unique. Its large dimensions and details of production date it to the mid 19th century.
More info »U.S. 13 Star Flag - Single Ring with Center Star.13 Star U.S. Flag - Revolutionary & Early Federal Period. This flag is one of one of a few known Revolutionary era flags with the stars arranged in a single ring around a larger center star. Contemporary illustrations from the 1780s indicate that the 13 stars were often arranged as a circle of 12 around a single central star.
More info »U.S. 13 Star Flag - Hancock & English.13 Star U.S. Flag, Revolutionary & Early Federal Period. Believed to be one of the oldest surviving 13-star flags from the early period of American history, this flag, from Salem, MA, bears blue stars onwhite, and reverses the traditional motifs. The placement of blue stars on a white canton is extremely rare.
More info »U.S. 34 Star Flag, 1861 - 1863 "Snowflakes Flag".34 Star US Flag, 1861 - 1863, "Snowflakes Flag" former Mastai Collection. This 34 star U.S. flag bears an extremely unusual, perhaps unique, star field. The five clusters, of six stars each, and the four accent stars at each outer edge of the canton are actually unexplained. They have been variously interpreted.
More info »U.S. 45 Star flag - John R. Thompson.45 Stars U.S. Flag - 1st N.Y. Engineers, John R. Thompson - Spanish American War - Capture of Puerto Rico, 1898. Officer Thompson, of the 2nd Battalion's Company K, took this flag with him and inscribed it with the names of the various locations where the unit encamped in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War.
More info »U.S. 34 Star Guidon.U.S. 34 Star guidon from the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers. A significant Company "L" guidon from the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers who fought in Florida in February of 1864 capturing a Confederate artillery battle flag as well as a Stars and Bars camp flag during the Civil War.
