[archy]

Courtesy Sotheby's

This 7-foot-by-5-foot silk flag was one of the first Confederate flags carried into battle. It sold Friday for $40,000.

[archy]

Daughters and Sons of Dixie ping.

[Calpernia]

Confederate flag sells for $40,000 at auction

Now why can't I get an eBay auction like this???

[stainlessbanner]

Hope this finds an honorable home.

[lentulusgracchus]

Notice that whoever sewed the stars into the union left a gap for adding more stars later. An optimist!

Yeeeeehaaaaaaaa! bump.

[My Dog Likes Me]

I thought that was "Turner Diaries" and not "Turner Dairies" for a minute there.

Anyway, sure wish they would've donated the flag to the state archives and taken the hefty tax deduction.

[lentulusgracchus]

Interesting item, but the chain of ownership described in the article doesn't make sense.

According to the article, the farmhouse had been owned since the Civil War by the Skinner family. The writer then immediately contradicts himself by bringing in a different "former owner", now dead. The article also doesn't make clear who gets the hamburger -- the dead woman or Lavinia Skinner.

Oh, well.

[aomagrat]

How long before the naacp demands the flag be destroyed and the $40,000 be donated to them for reparations?

[Paul C. Jesup]

To give you a good idea on this topic, a Confederate copper penny in a good condition will fetch around $60,000 per penny on the collectors markets.

[flying Elvis]

I've seen countless fake Confederate flags at auctions in recent years. Most of them are fairly easy to spot to the practised eye. An antique dealer in Atlanta had a veritable fake flag factory going for a while. He was buying period silk and cotton dresses and period thread, cutting them up, and making flags out of them. A lot of folks are buying old Confederate Veterans Association flags and passing them off as Civil War flags.

[OrioleFan]

John Kerry bought the flag for the back window of his SUV to campaign in South Carolina. He outbid John Dean for the flag with the new bump in contributions after his Iowa win.

[Morgan's Raider]

PING!