Wow! I really like both the Cardinals and the Oilers! Maybe bocca got the Oilers?

What a cool Oilers pennant. Only AFL-trademarked stadium pennant?

I have one of those with some damage. I thought about going all in for the ebay one, but didn't like the spine for an expensive upgrade. But I thought seriously about it.

I cannot recall seeing another. :confused:

The closest I've seen is the Dallas Texans Cotton Bowl pennant, but no AFL logo on that one. And the New York Jets Shea Stadium which was just post merger and has the NFL logo on it.

Exciting stuff is becoming fewer and farther between and as a result I've developed an appreciation for extremely rare modern stuff (80's-90's). Believe it or not, there is some cool stuff out there. Very under appreciated in my opinion. Don't know if it will ever take off from a value perspective, but does keep me interested when the vintage well runs dry.

This pretty much represents the best of my 2021 vintage efforts...The Eagles is particularly intriguing to me as it's black and includes tassels. I've never seen that pennant in any other color and it's always tassel-less.

Greg that Cardinal's pennant is great.

I had a few pennant arrive yesterday including this 1969 Pirates Team Pennant. (It's my first pennant from eBay.) t was described as being in "rough shape" so that price was great.

I hoped it could be cleaned up without too much hassle. So far so good.

• The first photo is from the ebay listing
• The 2nd photo is how it looked when I removed the photo to prepare it for cleaning
• Photo 3 is after I gave it a gentle soak with Oxiclean (or at least it's UK equivalent).

I just need to re-affix the photo. I'm pretty pleased with the results.

I experimented with cleaning another "beater" of a pennant too. The results weren't as good. I'll post photos to share what not to do later.

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Whoa! Some amazing stuff here!

I’ve never seen the Giants ACFL pennant! And the 58 Giants and Super Bowl pennants are phenomenal!

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Chiefs v. Vikings super bowl pennant is my favorite. I like the unique graphics/image. Why soooooo rare?

I've put the photo back in the Pirates Pennant and this is what it looks like after a clean. I'm pretty pleased.

I also picked up a Phillies "Atomic Cap" pennant in a misc lot. It was pretty badly discolored and it cost me next to nothing. So I decided to experiment with different approaches.

First I soaked it in Oxiclean for a couple of hours. That made it better but not much. So I soaked it in Oxiclean again and left it overnight. That was my mistake. The red dye in the graphics started to disolve because I left it soaking too long. After all of that, discolored white areas still weren't great.

At this point, the graphics were damaged so I decided to try bleach to see what it would do. That worked great on the white body of the pennant. I suspect if I started with bleach, it would have ended up perfect.

My lessons:

• Oxiclean works well but only use if for short amounts of time (e.g. an hour or two at most)
• If using Oxiclean, what for any bleeding of the graphics. As you as you see that, take it out and stop.
• Bleach on white pennants, can't be beat.

That was by far the cheapest of the bunch and it might be my favorite pick up of the year. From a cost/utils of pleasure perspective its off the charts. Would love to find more ACFL, Continental or UFL. There were over 100 minor league teams in the 1960s, but you only see pennants for the same handful of teams...Pottstown Firebirds, Wheeling Ironmen, Eugene Bombers, Philadelphia Bull Dogs and maybe a few others.

No idea but I've been waiting for a case of them to be discovered in a New Orleans warehouse since I got it. So far so good. It's interesting though that there are SB II and SB IV pennants that list both teams. Is SB III out there somewhere?

Decided to mix it up with some college football. Looks like the dude is about to stiff arm the gator [emoji1377][emoji246][emoji458]

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Great stuff, Rob. Mt favorite is the "Brownies." :p

Is the Phillies pennant stiff or soft?

The lessons I've learned:

* Oxiclean only works on the newer, stiff white pennants. It doesn't do much on the softer felt ones.
* Bleach works great on some older white pennants but I had a disaster on one with red graphics.
* Oxyclean can improve older, colored pennants but it's not usually a huge improvement.

Another lesson is I just learned is I can't figure out how to format bullet points! :p

I'm extremely happy to have picked up this three quarter size "batter and bridge' pennant. The full size versions are extremely common. There are probably 10-20 for sale on ebay at any given time. This is the first 3/4 I've ever seen. I have a similar 3/4, but it is not an exact replica of the full size. It's interesting that I've never seen one of these - the silk screen would have had to have been completely different i.e. they didn't just print full size graphics on a smaller pennant. It also appears this one never had color, other than the shoes. I've looked at it closely and I don't think it's a case of the color just fading out. BTW - do we know who made these left handed batter pennants?

I just noticed, too, that the "F" used on the 3/4's is a "hybrid" of the F's used on the full sized versions. The minutiae never ends!

Very Cool looking pennants and great detail in them.

Those San Fran Pennants would look great on display.

Just curious how do most pennants get displayed that are shown in this thread?

Rigid holders and thumbtacks. Lots of them!

Most of mine don't get displayed!

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Some recent pickups, Buffalo Bisons 1946 AAFC. Always looking for Buffalo sports team pennants if anyones got any for sale or trade, shoot me a message.


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Very nice! It’s gotta be a thrill to find those. I don’t imagine there are many around.

Awesome stuff. Great finds.

Red is always going to be an adventure. Sometimes it runs immediately. Sometimes it takes a while. Sometimes it holds up fine. I suspect your Phillies would've had problems even if you had gone with bleach. The bleeding red is manageable though. Just keep soaking/rinsing it with plain water until the running stops. I've never had one that didn't stop running and the bleed usually rinses away completely if you stay on top of it.

Using Oxyclean with red graphics, 30 minutes is my limit. I find most of the improvement occurs within that time any way. For dirtier, non-red pennants I may leave in a little longer. I did do an overnight on an old 70s Bengals pennant (white pennant with orange/black graphics) to see what would happen and the graphics faded pretty badly.

Nice pick up Erik.

Looking Real Good Greg

That SB4 pennant is really tough. Being in MN I have bought and sold just about every Vikings and Twins pennant around, but I’ve never had that one. I’ve only seen it a few times over the years.

The rest of those pennants are really nice. That’s some quality stuff.

Nice pickup. I have a reverse find.

I picked up this 1940s Tigers Pennant. It's a little faded in a few spots but I've not come across it before. Mike Egner's book only shows a 3/4 version of this pennant. Anyone else have or come across a full size version?

I have a few Toploaders on the wall, but I'm also using an idea that Mark showed in post 4884. The acrylic shelf is great. It takes about 20 pennants in toploaders and I move the front one to the back about once a week. That way I rotate through them all.

Here are my Oilers. Marc I noticed yours doesn’t have the pinkish colored AFL logo. It looks better white like yours. Another oddity is that in the dark blue pennant Oiler Man isn’t wearing #60 (I assume it isn’t ‘GO’) …

Love the displays and you are right Mark's idea is pretty simply and cool looking

I really like that dark blue Oilers pennant, Greg. That detail about the #60 should help me identify one, as the general style/lighter version is not so hard to find and the exact color is tough to see on pics/scans without a side by side.

Yes. Trench.

Thanks, Kyle. I was going to consult the PDF I made of your blog.

P.S. I’m jonesing for another entry! :p

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Hoping to post better quality photos. Looks to be a 3/4 size (25 inches). Worth picking up? Thanks for any info!

Somewhat rare and worth picking up for sure. Not sure what they're asking, but I would not exceed $75 for that one.

Thanks!

Got this Keezer Mets pennant very cheap, still good color for a blue cloth pennant.

Posted this awhile back … here’s another AFL-stamped pennant with a venue depicted.

How are you posting your photos, Chris? They look like screenshots from your phone. At a minimum, I would suggest you save the pics to your photos. I add my pictures from my desktop computer.

Finally Get to enjoy a Nice New York Pennant

Love the Look of it

Yep, they are phone screenshots. I have had no luck resizing them of late. Only have a phone at present. Laptop needs to be replaced.

Rather than screenshots, can you save them to your photos and then use those?

My pennants may not be the best, but there’s no shame in my picture game. :p

Tried that as well. The file size is too large to post. Used a Resizer App which ends up giving me these poor results. Frustrating

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I was able to finally add this 1956 gem to my Minneapolis Millers collection. A big thanks to Marc for letting me obtain it! Also to Jordan for the Burgundy addition!

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Nice pennants Erik

Just curious, has anyone seen the Cards version of this banner or any other teams using the same design?

Looks like that Millers pennant made its way to the right home to be with its family :)

This 49ers just arrived today. Very tough color combo.

That’s from that lot of 12, from about a month ago? Did the winner of the lot ebay it or did you somehow track him down?