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Originally Posted by Chris Counts
Bob, if they were made to be pillow cases, they were never completed. I found them as you see them and framed them up. I've seen many folk art silk baseball pieces over the years, but these two each had a lot of thought and work put into them when they were stitched together. They hang over my desk, so I look at them all day ...
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Those are gorgeous, and not sure how many such items have survived and remained intact like those, that are still out there. I remember years ago people taking items like those apart to try selling the individual ballplayer silks for what they thought would be a lot more money. You still see S74 silks come up on Ebay and elsewhere occasionally that have the holes in them from the thread that was used to sew them onto something. And you often see similar stitch marks in BF2/Ferguson Bakery pennants as well. To me it's a shame they ruined all those folk art pieces, and the silks and pennants, by taking them all apart.