ANTIQUE AMERICAN FLAG PUZZLES ARLINGTON TIME CAPSULE EXPLORERS
Conservators in the US have opened a ‘memorabilia box’ placed in the hollow cornerstone of Arlington Cemetery Memorial Amphitheater in 1915. Among the contents of the copper box was an old-fangled US flag – just 46 stars adorn the tiny silken flag, though at the time the capsule was sealed there were 48 states in the union. e box also revealed a programme for an American Civil War event coinciding with the 50th anniversary of that conflict’s end, documents bound in red tape, coins, stamps, a Bible and other items.