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General >> Chit-Chat (for poking fun and off topic subjects) >> Please Explain? http://www.kragcollectorsassociation.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1576372113 Message started by butlersrangers on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 1:08am

Title: Please Explain?
Post by butlersrangers on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 1:08am

All I can guess is these rifles, (a Krag, a Rolling-Block, and maybe a 'Lever-Gun?), were props at a Photograph Studio, around WW1?

Nice Krag!

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Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by Knute1 on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 1:58am

How did you happen upon these photos? Any other clues?

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by butlersrangers on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 3:57am

These Photos were printed on Postcard Stock (an old commercial photographer practice to facilitate sending to family and friends).

The photos are for-sale on eBay. There is no provenance in eBay description or markings/writing on photographs.

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by waterman on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 9:17pm

How many stars on the flag?

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by butlersrangers on Dec 15^th, 2019 at 10:16pm

It's folded; I can't get a good count.

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by Dick Hosmer on Dec 16^th, 2019 at 1:06am

Clearly not 48; most likely 46. I have one, picked up at an antique store in Hawaii years ago. When I asked the clerk if he noticed anything different about the flag, all I got was a blank stare.

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by Rcat7147 on Dec 16^th, 2019 at 1:33am

Looks like a 46 star to me.
Bottom row of stars is all in a straight line and the third and fourth rows from bottom look to be in line.

So 1908 to 1912.

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by butlersrangers on Dec 16^th, 2019 at 1:34am

A 46 star U.S. flag would be official from July 4, 1908, to July 4, 1912.

Thanks for the observation on the flag, Dick Hosmer.

I wish I could make out the ship name on the Donald Duck Hat!

Title: Re: Please Explain?
Post by Knute1 on Dec 16^th, 2019 at 1:35am

I vote 46 star. The number of stars in each row of the 46 star flag, starting at the bottom, is 8-7-8-8-7-8. The first three rows from the bottom in the photo (the rows are actually oriented vertical in the photo) is clearly 8-7-8 and I believe is unique to the 46-star flag.