FAKE & FANTASY CIVIL WAR ERA FLAGS

This fake South Carolina flag follows a distinct pattern of fake flags.  You will see others of this type as you scroll down. 

Here is a new twist on a fake flag.  This is being sold as a Blockade Runner flag.  Modern stitching.

This is a great flag if you like your reproductions faded and torn apart!  The frame is nice...

This is a well-aged, modern Confederate souvenir flag. 

Here we go again.  This is the basic pattern for ALL the fake Confederate flags.  This clunker is supposed to be a UCV flag, but it is the standard fake stencils, sloppy sewing, and edge torn look that you see on all of the flags on this page.  This seller was a faker that is now forced to list this crap in REENACTMENT/REPRO.

Same stencils, made by the same Tennessee folks that make 85% of all the repro flags that become fakes.

Another one of the "I dunno if its real" fakes.

This is the most dangerous type of fake.  Bannermans took old US flags from the Civil War era and cut them up and sewed them into Confederate flags.  The cloth is right, everything is right...but they aren't Confederate.  BE CAREFUL!!!!!!!!!

Here is a GREEEEAT fake Alabama flag!  Note the sloppy stitches and cheesy stencilled battle honors.

Somewhere there is a buyer with severe rectal bleeding from this fake.  It sold for over $6,000.  It is worth about $50. 

That cheap carpet the flag is lying on is worth more than this hunk-of-junk.  Again note the stencil lettering.  Also note the stitching on the stars and on the flag body.  This one isn't even close.

Look at this fine piece of vintage 2005 history!  This is the typical fake flag offering on e-bay.  Almost all have the same cheesy stars with frayed edges, and the exact same stencils for the "battle honors."  Some claim to be actual battleflags (HAHAHA!), others claim to be reunion flags (giggle!).  These flags and the sellers of these flags have one common denominator:  LOW END!!!

Same thumb tack job, same stencils.  FAKE!

These are the typical fake flag stars.  Note the frayed and sloppy look.  Real flags were never

made this poorly.  Flags were symbols, and not taken lightly. 

Same stencil job, 100% fake.

Here is another "battle flag" of the Lost Cause.  PUH-LEASE!  First, this is the 3rd National pattern which was authorized 3 months before the Lee's surrender.  No units ever used this pattern.  Compare the "battle honors" to the flag above.  Gee!  The stencilling looks the same!  They must have loaned the stencil to this unit!  Also, look at the end of the flag.  See how ragged it is?  That is from being torn, NOT from being blown in the wind.  Ragged tears like that are much neater than the shredded look you get from a flag being blown in the breeze.  This is another piece of junk.

Well, well, well!  MORE OF THAT SAME STENCILLING!  AMAZING!  Not to mention the great care the seller is taking here to thumbtack this piece of American history to the ceiling.  Yet ANOTHER piece of t-total crapola.  By the way, note the background in all my flag photos.  It is the same.  How many original Confederate flags does this super-shyster have???  This is the King of the Bristol, Tennessee fake sellers on e-bay.  He is the top of my list of fake e-bay crooks in the SPOTTING FAKES page.

The bottom-feeder that sold this reject claimed it was purchased at the Civil War Relic Show in Gettysburg.  Yeah, sure.  I guess he got it after he bought those boots of general Lee's.  Then the idiot claimed to not know if it was real, while SAYING it was bought as real.  Oiy Vey!  It is 100% fake, as was the BS story in the listing.

I don't know what is better.  The scenic shingles this seller uses for a backdrop, or the closups of why this waste of a tablecloth is just that...a waste of a tablecloth.  See the usual sloppy frayed stars, sewn on in clumsy stitches by a blind idiot.  Note the one-sided look that was very unusual, and of course the fact that it looks like all the other fake flags minus the bogus battle honors.  Flags in the Civil War were very important symbols.  Soldiers died for these flags.  They were symbols of Southern chivalry.  No Southern unit would have EVER gone into battle with such a sloppy piece of junk as this.  They would have shot the crook that tried to pawn it off on them.

Recognize that cheap, ugly carpet?  Yes this shyster is offering his latest junk flag complete with cheesy stars, and typical bogus battle honors using that common stencil.  Gee!  I wonder if it passed the blacklight test!

Here is the latest fake Confederate flag.  Now it is relegated to the repro category on e-bay.

Another typical fake Confederate flag.  Seller of this one was informed and he changed the auction to his credit.

Here is the latest in badly made junk flags.  *sigh!*

I REALLY wish these dickweeds would get a different set of stencils!!!

Someone went to a lot of trouble to frame this Liberian flag and sell it as a US Civil War flag.  It isn't even the correct country!

This is a 1980's repro from "The Gallery of The Republic" in Austin, Texas. The gallery specializes in authentic looking copies of flags, maps, and other items related to Texas, and during the Bicentennial Era expanded to the RevWar era, too.

This is what happens when you shred, burn, and stain a cheap, souvenir flag.  Even the frame blows.

You know, I wonder if the people that make all that antique-looking stuff that is hanging off the roof in all the Cracker Barrel restaurants make these fake flags as well.

MUCH better quality reproduction, but it is STILL a reproduction.