#27 • Benny Benson Signed Alaska Flag & Related Memorabilia

Part of March 2025 Premier Auction (live auction by Alaska Premier Auctions & Appraisals)

High bid $3,000.00

Status: Sold

Category: Alaskana

Collection of vintage Alaskana memorabilia consisting of two First Day of Issue Official Cachet statehood stamped envelopes, both dated 1959, one sealed, 1951 vinyl of The Coraleers singing Alaska’s Flag, The Star Spangled Banner, and America (My Country ’Tis of Thee), and an Alaska State flag in blue and gold, with signature at lower right for John Ben "Benny" Benson (1912-1972), the fourteen-year-old student who won the flag design contest for the Territory of Alaska in 1927; Alaska became the forty-ninth state thirty-two years later in 1959. His description of the flag was “The blue field is for the Alaska sky and the forget-me-not, an Alaska flower. The North Star is for the future of the state of Alaska, the most northerly in the Union. The dipper is for the Great Bear – symbolizing strenth (sic).” Flag is framed under glass, measuring approximately 17" x 23" overall.