I need help to ID this 24 star flag

[meenman]

Hi I need help to ID this flag. It is about 9'X5'. and has 24 stars. Looks to be made of cotton. Any in fo will be helpful. Thanks MEENMAN.
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[meenman]

Any thoughts about the age?

[NAVA1974]

Any thoughts about the age?

The dyed canton of blue with white stars appears to be identical to the material in some WW II era 48-star flags I have. Not sure why someone would want a 24-star flag reproduction, but Missouri was the 24th state, and their centennial would have been in 1921. Frankly the flag doesn't look that old, and I would stick with the 1940's to 1950's as my guess.

The size is near correct for a casket flag, so maybe it was made as an expedient for a large number of military funerals.

Nick A
Columbia Maryland

[csaanv]

Maybe it is a movie prop?

[Robin Hickman]

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For What It's Worth: Judging by the spacing and the gaps, it looks, to me, exactly like a 48-star Flag with the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th rows (of six stars each) removed, and leaving the remaining 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 8th rows (of six stars each) in the canton.

Does anybody else see it ???


Robin Hickman
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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[csaanv]

Robin,
It does look funky with the extra space at the top.

[NAVA1974]

... ... it looks, to me, exactly like a 48-star Flag. Does anybody else see it ??? ...

Yep.
As I said earlier, the stars look like the material in the canton of my 48 star flag. It was probably canton material from a 6x10 foot flag, and they just used half of the stars to make a smaller flag.
Nick