Wrapped Potential: Antique Unopened Roll of One Dozen McLoughlin Bros. Parade Flags (With Unknown Number of Stars) child's book There are some pencil marks

There are some pencil marks just underneath the green on the tree at left

I was very happy to find this one

pulled from the personal collection of an artist--and I purchased a few more

Some aging to the brass and to the back side

but pages still mostly bound

Wrapped Potential: Antique Unopened Roll of One Dozen McLoughlin Bros. Parade Flags (With Unknown Number of Stars) child's book There are some pencil marksI didn't think too hard about this these when I bought it them, at a flea market in Lancaster County, PA I just loved the idea of an unopened roll of a dozen American parade flags (which, rolled tight, also a bit evince a stick of dynamite.) And as if lying (for a very long time( in wait of a worthy occasion, at which they might be unfurled. From the label still attached, we know they were made by McLaughlin Bros., the pioneering New York publishing