card / Jacobs Factory, 1916

Sections of tricolour which flew over Jacobs in 1916. Comprising three fragments of cloth about .5 x .25 inches in dimension, one green, one white and one yellow, pasted on to a piece of brown paper 3.6 x 5.8 inches, in the shape of a flag staff painted in white alongside the cloth fragments. Written in white below is 'Fragments of the Sinn Fein flag which flew over Jacob's Biscuit Factory Dublin, Easter 1916'. On the back is a note in ink dated 'August 30th 1923' describing how the donor acquired these fragments after Easter Week 1916.;