This Gadsden, Don’t Tread on Me flag is one-of-a-kind mashup with the famous Chicago Flag. The original Gadsden flag is considered one of the first flags of the United States and is seen is a symbol of American Patriotism.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

It is available in 30”x48" and 46”x60." Please use the drop down menu for pricing!
Hanging wire included.

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This Gadsden, Don’t Tread on Me flag is one-of-a-kind and limited edition. This flag is considered one of the first flags of the United States and is seen is a symbol of American Patriotism.

This series is limited to only 150 flags and each one is hand numbered and signed.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

It is available in 30”x48″ and 46”x60.” Please use the drop down menu for pricing!
Hanging wire included.

LOCAL PICK-UP IS OK

If you would like another image or different size let me know!

***!!!SHIPPING IS INCLUDED FOR THIS ITEM!!!! ***

In late 1775, as the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued, in a set of fleet signals, an instruction directing his vessels to fly a "striped" jack and ensign. The exact design of these flags is unknown. The ensign was likely to have been the Grand Union Flag, and the jack a simplified version of the ensign: a field of 13 horizontal red and white stripes. However, the jack has traditionally been depicted as consisting of thirteen red and white stripes charged with an uncoiled rattlesnake and the motto "Dont [sic] Tread on Me"; this tradition dates at least back to 1880, when this design appeared in a color plate in Admiral George Henry Preble’s influential History of the Flag of the United States. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that this inferred design never actually existed but "was a 19th-century mistake based on an erroneous 1776 engraving".[1]

In 1778, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sicily, thanking him for allowing entry of American ships into Sicilian ports. The letter describes the American flag according to the 1777 Flag Resolution, but also describes a flag of "South Carolina, a rattlesnake, in the middle of the thirteen stripes."[2]

The rattlesnake had long been a symbol of resistance to the British in Colonial America. The phrase "Don’t tread on me" may be coined during the American Revolutionary War, a variant perhaps of the snake severed in segments labelled with the names of the colonies and the legend "Join, or Die" which had appeared first in Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754, as a political cartoon reflecting on the Albany Congress.

The rattlesnake (specifically, the Timber Rattlesnake) is especially significant and symbolic to the American Revolution. The rattle has thirteen layers, signifying the original Thirteen Colonies. And, the snake does not strike until provoked, a quality echoed by the phrase "Don’t tread on me." For more on the origin of the rattlesnake emblem, see the Gadsden flag.

This series is limited to only 150 flags and each one is hand numbered and signed.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

It is available in 30”x48" and 46”x60." Please use the drop down menu for pricing!
Hanging wire included.

LOCAL PICK-UP IS OK.

***!!!SHIPPING IS INCLUDED FOR THIS ITEM!!!! ***

***WE WILL REFUND ALL ORDER’S THAT ARE LOCAL PICK-UP***

If you would like another image or different size let me know!

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This Gadsden, Don’t Tread on Me engraving. This flag is considered one of the first flags of the United States and is seen is a symbol of American Patriotism.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

LOCAL PICK-UP IS OK

***!!SHIPPING IS INCLUDED FOR THIS ITEM !!!! ***
***WE WILL REFUND ALL ORDER’S THAT ARE LOCAL PICK-UP***

If you would like another image or different size let me know!

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“Join, or Die” is a well-known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.[1] The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.[2] It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the thirteen American colonies or region. New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time. In addition, Delaware (then a part of Pennsylvania) and Georgia were omitted completely. Thus, it has 8 segments of snake rather than the traditional 13 colonies.[3] The two northernmost British American colonies at the time, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, were not represented, nor were any British Caribbean possessions. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin’s editorial about the “disunited state” of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity. This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians. It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

This series is limited to only 30 flags and each one is hand numbered and signed.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured. The flag also has a black frame around it.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

It is available in 30”x48″ and 46”x60.” Please use the drop down menu for pricing!
Hanging wire included.

LOCAL PICK-UP IS OK

If you would like another image or different size let me know!

***!!SHIPPING IS INCLUDED FOR THIS ITEM !!!! ***

"Join, or Die" is a well-known political cartoon, created by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.[1] The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.[2] It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the thirteen American colonies or region. New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time. In addition, Delaware (then a part of Pennsylvania) and Georgia were omitted completely. Thus, it has 8 segments of snake rather than the traditional 13 colonies.[3] The two northernmost British American colonies at the time, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, were not represented, nor were any British Caribbean possessions. The cartoon appeared along with Franklin’s editorial about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity. This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians. It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

Like all of my other unique pieces, this flag is handmade and has been given a vintage distressed look. Originally a 1-dimensional idea, I brought this piece to life making it 3-dimensional and textured. The flag also has a black frame around it.

This flag would be a great addition to any room in your household and is certain to be a conversation starter and history lesson all in one!

It is available in 30”x48" and 46”x60." Please use the drop down menu for pricing!
Hanging wire included.

LOCAL PICK-UP IS OK

***!!SHIPPING IS INCLUDED FOR THIS ITEM !!!! ***
***WE WILL REFUND ALL ORDER’S THAT ARE LOCAL PICK-UP***

If you would like another image or different size let me know!

Check out my store! https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChrisKnightCreations