Wrapped Potential: Antique Unopened Roll of One Dozen McLoughlin Bros. Parade Flags (With Unknown Number of Stars) coin box I especially love the choice

I especially love the choice of blue paint for face

and also a telenovela

I love the paper they were done on

I have mended a few tears and stabilized with some clear archival tape on the reverse

This is the last from a handful of intensely doodled late 19th c

Wrapped Potential: Antique Unopened Roll of One Dozen McLoughlin Bros. Parade Flags (With Unknown Number of Stars) coin box I especially love the choiceI didn't think too hard about this these when I bought it them, at a flea market in Lancaster County, PA I just loved the idea of an unopened roll of a dozen American parade flags (which, rolled tight, also a bit evince a stick of dynamite.) And as if lying (for a very long time( in wait of a worthy occasion, at which they might be unfurled. From the label still attached, we know they were made by McLaughlin Bros., the pioneering New York publishing