Report Card: Jets
 

Pennant: AFL Jets

Era: Mid 60's

Issue: Significant discoloration from age. A couple small stains.

Material: Soft felt

Result: Very white. Stains gone. No change to silk screening. Material feels slightly different. Maybe thinner.

Grade: B

Report Card: Giants #2
 

Pennant: Tittle Giants #2

Era: Early 60's

Issue: Significant discoloration

Material: Same as first Giants pennant

Result: Same as first Giants pennant. Much whiter with a few loose threads and red paint bleeding.

Grade: B+

Some very nice results on those last ones. Funny how the red paint reacts differently from the blue. Who'd have guessed?

Regarding that Jets/Namath pennant... one of my very favorites from that era. Hopefully the spine cleans up well, as it's otherwise in great shape. I would definitely try that one next, and only attempt the "spine transplant" if it bombs.

Fingers crossed for you... please be sure to keep posting your results!

Yeah...No issue whatsoever to the blue. Holds up fine. Same with the black on the Browns pennant. The blue and orange of the Bears held up fine too. So far only red has run. Overall...Aside from the Redskins, very pleased with the "after" version of each pennant.

Double Sided Ali vs Foreman/ Aaron 714 pennant
 

Hello,

Im a vintage baseball glove collector who resides in the far south Chicago suburbs. I usually head to at least one flea market a weekend, sometimes 3 or 4.
I've posted a few times trying to sell stuff, but I'm a lurker. I like to follow the posts and learn, but have little to add. My username is the same on Brett's vintage baseball glove forum, I've had some cool glove finds the last couple years. Check them out.

Anyway, heres my addition to the thread. It's a double sided pennant featuring Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay vs. George Foreman on one side and Hank Aaron chasing down Ruth's HR record on the other. I contacted a fellow member and he said that pennants would be recycled if unsold, and that he'd never seen one like it. That initially made me think the Ali side had been reused to make the Aaron side due to the red strip of felt. A little research later i found the date of the Aaron side was before the October Rumble in the Jungle. It then dawned on me that if they were recycling pennants they certainly wouldn't remove the red felt strip and resew it on the new side.

Let me know what you think, stepped out of my comfort zone on this one.

I usually turn these finds into baseball gloves, still have a sweet uniform in the B/S/T section.

Richie

Fantastic pennant, Richie! I've never seen either side, which is somewhat surprising since you might think I would have seen the Aaron in my baseball searches or the Ali in one of the many auction catalogs I've received over the years. I assume the empty square on the Aaron was for a photo.

Didn't Ali fight Foreman more than once? If so, your pennant isn't necessarily Rumble in the Jungle. I love how they decided to do Ali's new name in a middle eastern looking font. :p

I don't have an idea on value but I would think both Ali and Aaron are highly collected.

I've seen both... The Aaron side is the original one. When it went unsold, they simply re-used the pennant for Ali/Foreman. Apparently the makers didn't feel that fans/collectors would care much about the felt strip being on the incorrect side. I've seen the same phenomenon with Colt .45/Astros and Boston/Milwaukee Braves 2-sided pennants. The felt strip is seemingly always on the original side.

The blank square was indeed for a photo insert of Aaron. So either it was removed, or more likely, never even applied. Appears there is no adhesive or residue to indicate a photo ever having been applied.

So this was likely just left-over stock, used by the vendor to save money. It's a unique piece, and probably desirable to the right buyer. Probably won't get you a crescent pad, or even a Lutzke in return... but perhaps a nice Decker Patent (to put the value in "glove terms"). Still, great stuff!

Here's an interesting addition to the story. The pennant pictured below shows the Hank Aaron pennant with a photo. I'm sure this photo is not original to the piece. So I'm betting that a few (or perhaps many) of these pennants never had any photo attached. The photo would have been centered within the painted square.

The example pictured below was likely a home-made job, done to make it more saleable and attractive.

That is a beautiful pennant. Please, Id love to see pics of it all cleaned up. That and the Namath. those are some gorgeous pennants.

Mike

Thank you for the advice!

Mike