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Paton & Company
New York
Tiffany and Company
New York
Flags by Tiffany and Company, were of the best quality and most
expensive. Their flags were made of silk and were hand embroidered.
Charles O. Eaton
Boston
Horstmann Brothers
Philadelphia
One of the largest military
goods manufacturers in America, Commisioned by the Philadelphia Depot to
produce Pennsylvania battle flags during the war. They made many flags for
Pennselvanyian regiments and surrounding states. They also produced a few
C.S.A. flags early in the war and advertised in Richmound in 1860. The
Horstmann firm was founded by William H. Horstmann (1785-1850), who had
emigrated to Philadelphia from Germany in 1816. Horstmann bought out a
localswordmaker in 1828 and thereafter entered the military goods field. The
firm benefited from the CivilWar, becoming the largest military goods
producer in the nation by 1864, with an estimated worth of overone million
dollars
Evans & Hassall
Philadelphia
Operated from 1859-1866 as the Horstmann Brother’s greatest rival. One of
their trademarkes is the inverted scroll
John Shilleto
Cincinnati
Sisco Brothers
Baltimore
Baldwins’s Fancy Bazaar
Indianapolis
Alexander Brandon
Samuel Brewer
Philadelphia
The sole pre-war flag contractor to the
Philadelphia Quartermasters Depot.
Longley & Brother
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