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Me, too...it's my fave. I have a wide assortment of flags, and I just added the Continental Flag from the American Revolution the other day.....I'm going to have to ask a seamstress to do something with it and with my Betsy Ross, though. The Continental has the canton in white nylon tacked over the red ensign, which shows through, making the canton pink!! And the nylon Betsy Ross's union is printed (the stripes are sewn), and for some reason the stars are small and dim -- I'm going to get her to add some bigger, brighter stars. I'll also cherish a 13-star naval ensign when I can get one -- they're available now, but those puppies are almost 100 bucks a pop! They're from a company that supplies every last national flag ever flown; if you want a 20-star or a 46-star national color in nylon, they're your source. Just get your wallet out.

In addition to my Revolutionary War flags, which I'll be displaying soon (I hang them all out in the days leading up to the Fourth, and fly Betsy Ross on the Fourth), I have a number of Confederate flags and am looking for more -- most wanted right now is a copy of General Polk's corps flag. He was an Episcopal bishop, and so he took his battle flag and redesigned it as a red Cross of St. George -- bearing stars as before -- and uprighted it on a field of blue. He added white fimbrations to the cross as per heraldic convention, but some of his Tennessee troops dispensed with them when making their regimental colors and sewed the red cross directly to the blue. I've seen illustrations of a couple of these Tennessee regimentals somewhere, one of them with the fimbration, one without.