Colonial Currency North Carolina April 2 1776 $7-1/2 United States Fl... Lot 116
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Colonial Currency North Carolina April 2 1776 $7-1/2 United States Fl... Lot 116:
$3000.00
LOT 116
Seller\'s Estimate: USD 2,400 - 2,800
1776 North Carolina Seven Dollars & An Half Note \"United States Flag with 13 Stripes and the Union Jack\" Vignette
North Carolina. April 2, 1776. Halifax Issue. Seven Dollars And An Half. \"United States Flag with 13 Stripes and the Union Jack\" vignette. Engraver\'s Initials \"G L.\" Extremely Fine.
Fr. NC-164. An important historical major rarity of this popular 1776 Revolutionary War issue, having the United States Flag at left, shown with 13 stripes and the Union Jack. The blank verso remains perfectly clean and free of detractions. An attractive, sharply printed and impressive example. This odd denomination has the Engraver\'s Initials \"G L\" printed as part of the left border design at the bottom, the United States Flag vignette is well printed with full definition to every detail. All four signers are present and easily readable including; William Haywood, J. Webb, David Sumner and William Williams. We sold a similar note in Very Fine condition for $1,725 in our February 2002 sale, and in our EAHA sale of October 15, 2011, Lot 75 graded Choice Very Fine with conservation sold for $1,534. This current note is far superior in its quality and overall eye appeal. An extremely popular major design type, displaying a historic 1776 Revolutionary War design of the United States Flag. One of the finest we have seen and offered. At the time of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress would not legally adopt any Flags designed with \"stars, white in a blue field\" for yet another year. The Flag contemporaneously known as \"the Continental Colors\" has historically been referred to as the first \"National\" Flag. It was first raised at sea by the Continental Navy on December 3, 1775 by John Paul Jones, and later on land, on January 1, 1776 upon Prospect Hill (then called Mount Pisgah) in Somerville, Massachusetts, when the Continental Army was mustered into formal existence. It received its\' name from a reference as the \"Grand Union Flag\" in one of George Washington\'s letters. Curiously, this Flag was never officially sanctioned by the Continental Congress. Flying aboard a Patriot ship, it received the first foreign salute to an American Flag from Governor De Graaff of St. Eustatius Island on November 16, 1776.
Flag Resolution which stated: \"Resolved, that the Flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.\" Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year. A false tradition holds that the new Flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment. 13-Star Flag and 13-Star \"Betsy Ross\" variant --- The 1777 resolution was most probably meant to define a naval ensign. In the late 18th century, the notion of national Flag did not yet exist, or was only nascent. The Flag resolution appears between other resolutions from the Marine Committee. On May 10, 1779, Secretary of the Board of War Richard Peters expressed concern \"it is not yet settled what is the Standard of the United States.\" The Flag Resolution did not specify any particular arrangement, number of points, nor orientation for the stars. One famous arrangement features 13 outwardly-oriented five-pointed stars arranged in a circle, the so-called Betsy Ross Flag. Although the Betsy Ross legend is controversial, the design is among the earliest 13-Star Flags. Popular designs at the time were varied and most were individually crafted rather than mass-produced. Examples of 13-Star arrangements can be found on other Flags attributed to Francis Hopkinson, the Cowpens Flag, and the Brandywine Flag. Given the scant archaeological and written evidence, it is unknown if one design was the most popular during the period. Despite the 1777 resolution, a number of Flags only loosely based on the prescribed design were used in the early years of American independence. One example may have been the Guilford Court House Flag, traditionally believed to have been carried by the American troops at the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781. The origin of the stars and stripes design is inadequately documented. The apocryphal story credits Betsy Ross for sewing the first Flag from a pencil sketch handed to her by George Washington. No evidence for this exists; indeed, nearly a century had passed before Ross\' grandson, William Canby, first publicly suggested it. Another woman, Rebecca Young, has also been credited as having made the first Flag by later generations of her family. Young\'s daughter was Mary Pickersgill, who made the Star Spangled Banner Flag. It is likely that Francis Hopkinson of New Jersey, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, designed the 1777 Flag while he was the Chairman of the Continental Navy Board\'s Middle Department, sometime between his appointment to that position in November 1776 and the time that the Flag resolution was adopted in June 1777. This contradicts the Betsy Ross legend, which suggests that she sewed the first Stars and Stripes Flag by request of the government in the Spring of 1776. Francis Hopkinson was the only person to have made such a claim during his own lifetime, when he sent a bill to Congress for his work. He asked for a \"Quarter Cask of the Public Wine\" as payment initially. The payment was not made, however, because it was determined he had already received a salary as a member of Congress, and he was not the only person to have contributed to the design. The modern meaning of the Flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the American garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America. Adam Goodheart argues this was the opening move of the Civil War, and the Flag was used throughout the North to symbolize American nationalism and rejection of secessionism. Before that day, the Flag had served mostly as a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory, flown from forts, embassies, and ships, and displayed on special occasions like the Fourth of July. But in the weeks after Major Anderson\'s surprising stand, it became something different. Suddenly the Stars and Stripes flew - as it does today, and especially as it did after September 11 - from houses, from storefronts, from churches; above the village greens and college quads. For the first time American Flags were mass-produced rather than individually stitched and even so, manufacturers could not keep up with demand. As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old Flag meant something new. The abstraction of the Union cause was transfigured into a physical thing: strips of cloth that millions of people would fight for, and many thousands die for.
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Colonial Currency North Carolina April 2 1776 $7-1/2 United States Fl... Lot 116:
$3000.00