Flag identification

[CT_civilwar_buff]

So a friend found a flag and was wondering if it was civil war.What do you guys think?He assumed cavalry.

 

[CT_civilwar_buff]

Do you recognize any particular regiment?

 

[CMWinkler]

I've done some brief looking and I do not see any flag of which I am aware that resembles this one. We have a number of experts here though who may.

 

[CT_civilwar_buff]

It appears to be a guidon.Thanks @CMWinkler

 

[AUG]

It looks like a could actually be one of those small streamers (?) on the end of a cavalry lance.

For example:

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Another possibility is a signal flag of some sort.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Do we have the dimensions of this item?... Appears to be smaller than the typical guidon flag...

Does not appear to be anything familiar with Civil War era related insignias that I've ever seen before.

Some of the stitching appears to be done with a lock stitch sewing machine which would imply it has some age, but just how old... The center device appears to be hand sewn in place.... Lance pennants typically would have three ties on it... this item appears to have a pole sleeve made into it... Might not be US in origin either, hence further the mystery...

Unfortunately there were endless array of various small ambiguous curio flags, banners and pennants in use around turn of the century... flank markers, unit identifiers, camp flags, warning flags.... yet many others not military related at all.... corporate insignia logos, colleges, sports teams, boat clubs, to further confuse....

 

[AndyHall]

The auction house describes it as 7 inches on the hoist and 12 inches on the fly -- that's very small. Also says the red-and-white diamond is currently the emblem of the Finance Corps, which is a diamond/lozenge, but usually in four quarters and all gold, so I'm doubting that last part.

But regardless, it's small -- maybe a car pennant?

 

[major bill]

Could it have a Dutch origin? maybe it is just the color of the badge that makes me wonder.

 

[Booner]

Finance Corps

Finance Corps? Really
I can see whole companies of accountants riding into battle with sharp pencils ready to audit the enemy.

 

[Frederick14Va]

Finance Corps? Really
I can whole companies of accountants riding into battle with sharp pencils ready to audit the enemy.

Bean Counter Crusaders.... Beat them over the head with their calculators.. if they capture the enemy force them to undergo audits... that should be torture enough.... Oh the humanity....

 

[AndyHall]

Finance Corps? Really
I can see whole companies of accountants riding into battle with sharp pencils ready to audit the enemy.

My late father-in-law, a Korean War combat veteran, later went into the Finance Corps. He ended up carrying payroll cash boxes to forward operating bases in Vietnam by chopper, and he had a few hair-raising tales to tell about that. It wasn't all pencils and carbon-paper forms in triplicate.

But yeah, otherwise the jokes do kind of write themselves. ;-)

 

[Booner]

My late father-in-law, a Korean War combat veteran, later went into the Finance Corps.

Nothing against your Father-in-Law. A Korean War Vet has my respect.

 

[AndyHall]

Nothing against your Father-in-Law. A Korean War Vet has my respect.

I didn't take it that way, so no worries. I had the same reaction when he first told me.

 

[AndyHall]

At 7 inches x 12 inches, this thing is much smaller than a modern, regulation Army or Marine Corps guidon, which presumably haven't changed a great deal over the years. Could this be a scouting or marker pennant?