HALL BROTHERS (2).
image by Joe McMillan, 27 August 2001
Lloyds lists this flag under George E. Billings of San Francisco. It is tapered in Lloyds 1912; Rosanoski identifies FOTW’s conventional swallowtail as an erroneous rendering. Attribution to the Puget Sound Hall Brothers remains a suggestion.
The separate Puget Sound Hall Brothers built the five-masted schooner George E. Billings in 1903 and apparently also operated a fleet. The schooner was named after the fleet manager. Ned Smith suggested that a flag listed under George E. Billings might represent Hall Brothers; archivist Robert Ross separately confirmed encountering a photograph of the named vessel.
USA, Puget Sound.