AMERICANA Folk Art Trapunto Silk Embroidery Souvenir Navy Military American Flag

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AMERICANA Folk Art Trapunto Silk Embroidery Souvenir Navy Military American Flag:
$3000.00

Framed Americana \'Souvenir\' Embroidery \'Scroll\'

Circa 1900

U.S. Military \'Trapunto\' Souvenir Scroll with Naval Symbols.
This is a very elaborate American \'trapunto\' scroll featuring an American bald eagle with arrows and olive branches, three United States Flags, an American shield and a scroll with E Pluribus Unum under the original sailor\'s photograph--from the early 1900s.

This is an amazing piece of needlework \'souvenir\' art created in Asia as a \'remembrance\' for a military man who sailed on the USAT Sherman during her time in Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection. It is black silk background with heavy smooth lustrous multi colored silk and metallic thread embroidery. A fantastic \'Americana\' piece in great condition. Silk is in good condition with only a few minor splits. Could benefit from a re-framing with archival materials but still shows well in the original wood frame.

The American Eagle has a \'puffed\' trapunto crafting giving a slight 3-D effect. Trapunto is sometimes called “stuffed technique”. This piece has an intricate weaving of gold and silver threads interwoven with silks to create layered effect. The Eagle\'s eye is glass.

Total measurement is 24 inches x 29 inches.

Wooden frame with glass.

This stunning piece is a not only artistic but historical. It showcases the inset vintage photograph of the actual sailor that had this piece created as a patriotic souvenir of his service time on the USAT Sherman.

This looks fabulous hanging on the wall-which is where it has long been displayed by the previous collector who owned it.
A Great crossover Militaria, Naval, Folk Art and Americana collectible.Similar pieces can be seen online for much more than our asking price.This is part of an Americana and Folk Art collection we will be offering over the next few weeks.

USAT Sherman
(S.S. Mobile)Other names: USAT Sherman, Calawaii, S.S. Mobile
Sisters: Manitoba, Massachusetts, Mohawk
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast, yard number 253
Launched November 17, 1892; delivered July 27, 1893; scrapped in Japan, 1933
Hull: length 445\' 6\"; beam 50\' 2\"; 5,780 tons; 1 funnel; 4 masts
Power: single screw; triple expansion engines by builder, with cylinders of 22 ½\", 36 ½\", and 60\" diameter, stroke 48\"; 499 n.h.p.
Steam pressure 165 lbs.; fuel consumption 60 tons per day; 14 knots
Registered in London; official number 101966 The Mobile was one of four sisters built as freighter for the African Steamship Company (Elder Dempster & Company). She was first chartered by the Atlantic Transport Line and then purchased by it in October of 1896. A passenger list dating from July 1896 records that the commander of the Mobile was Sydney Layland, and an article in the New York Times notes that her consumption of coal was 60 tons per day. She is recorded in the Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals making 44 voyages to New York for the Atlantic Transport Line between August 1892 and December 1897.1898 Mobile and her sisters were among the six Atlantic Transport Line ships bought by the U. S. Government for service as transports during the Spanish-American War. This particular vessel was purchased on July 14 for $660,000, converted in New York, and given the number 1, \"in accordance with the policy adopted of changing the names of foreign vessels to designated numbers after they come into the possession of the United States.\" She was not converted in time to serve during the war, but was retained afterwards for the new Army transport service, for which she was renamed Sherman.The Sherman made an excellent transport because she could accommodate 80 officers, 1,000 men and 1,000 horses as well as a high volume of cargo including refrigerated meat. She was allocated to the Pacific fleet and served on its regular San Francisco to Manila service. When the Sherman returned to San Francisco from the Philippines with California\'s regiment of soldiers she was the cause of the first working wireless signals in America. The city had planned a big celebration for the soldiers upon their return. But nobody knew when the troopship would arrive. George Otis Mitchell, a physics teacher at Girl\'s High School, had experimented with wireless telegraphy and suggested that if a wireless transmitter were put onboard the lightship San Francisco (which Sherman would have to pass), a lookout could report the sighting to a receiver located in the city who would then pick up the message and relay it via telephone lines. The idea was taken up and it worked extremely well.The Sherman took an active role in the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion, and World War One. She sailed on one voyage to Vladivistok and Trieste in December 1918 to collect Czech soldiers of war who had marched across Russia with the Red army in hot pursuit and in 1920 she carried American athletes from New York to compete in the Olympic Games in Antwerp.In 1922 Sherman was bought by the Los Angeles Steamship Company for $60,000, and rebuilt as a cabin liner for their Los Angeles to Hawaii service by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Company at a cost of $300,000. The ship, renamed Calawaii, now had accommodation for 178 first class and 52 third class passengers, and evidently proved to be a popular liner. In 1932 she was laid up and the following year she towed the burned out City of Honolulu to Osaka, where both ships were scrapped in 1933.Sources: The Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931; The Ships List; Passenger Ships of the World Past and Present, Eugene W. Smith, Massachusetts, 1977; Merchant Fleets in Profile 2; the Ships of the Cunard, American, Red Star, Inman, Leyland, Dominion, Atlantic Transport and White Star Lines, Duncan Haws, 1979; maritimematters.com; antiqueradio.com; The Transport Service, by Patrick McSherry; The New York Times, December 8, 1897; June 25, 1898; August 5, 1920

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