11-29-2021, 08:23 AM
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Rob
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Salt Lake
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Originally Posted by Domer05
So that's what it read! Yes, Gimbel Brothers.... That one always perplexed me. Thought it might have read "Spalding Bros.," but not quite.
Your Athletics pennant, Greg, was the only pennant I've ever seen with this mark on it. Anybody ever seen another?
I'm thinking the Alterations Department made these up for the hometown team, probably in the 1910s, as part of a very limited run.
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I’ve never considered a department store producing a pennant(s), but Kyle knows much more about the early days. Could be the case…
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