One of my hunting partners is retired army and is in the VFW. The local VFW has a drop box for people to leave old, unusable US flags to be properly burned. Our Trail Life troop helps him do the burning on occasion. He gets hundreds of flags a year and has been watching for a 48 star flag. Those haven't been used since HI became a state in '59. He finally got one. It's pretty well thrashed but the colors are still sharp. I'm thinking it was flown in a terrific wind storm years ago before it had time to fade and has been in someone's closet ever since.

Very cool.

Wow - that's very cool.

I would repair that one.

You could sew the tears but it looks too short. I think most of the flying edge is gone. Besides, he knows I make my own outdoor gear. If I suggested he repair it, he'd smile and hand it to me.

I have some 49 star flags, got them when there were
49 states

We could actually benefit greatly if we'd kick a few out now.

Wow

It’s in better shape than the one McDonald’s flies here in town

Not quite true, though it should have been. Just a few years ago someone noticed the courtroom flag in our county courthouse was a 48 star flag; it had been there since the courthouse was built around 1933.

I was in error there. I meant when ALASKA became a state. There was a 49 star flag for a very short time until HI came in later the same year.

I'm thinkin' we could have done without Hawaii.....

Hawaii welfare and heavily subsidized island...
With congressmen and 2 senators


Liberal Socialist Democrats get their way
Our other welfare and heavily subsidized island will get full statehood representation also....
Puerto Rico.....

Along with DC....

I have an old 48 star one also. It's pretty decent with no rips or anything. Some idiot threw it on top of the trash cans I was picking up back in 1974. Had it ever since all folded up. I was thinking of turning it in at the local American Legion post now that I'm cleaning this place out in my retirement. Unless somebody wants a decent 48 star flag. Any collector value to something like that?

When cleaning out my in laws house, we found quite a bit of cool old stuff in their attic, including a 46 star flag, that would have been prior to New Mexico and Arizona, I guess.