I thought I was playing it safe by bidding $650. My snipe bounced right out as the high bid went from $261 to over $1800 in the time it took me to submit my bid. That's an amazing price for a non-championship, non-dated football pennant. Love to see it.

One of the coolest-ever football pennants, for sure. The graphic is awesome. Right up there with the 49ers goldpanner.

Yikes. This just sold. Definitely. Not. Vintage.

Cardboard label still attached …

Not thrilling at all, but my other example was faded blue and missing its tassels. Red sure holds up better than blue, huh?

P.S. the reproduction of this on the synthetic crap is quite prevalent.

No you’re wrong this is thrilling. Beautiful in its simplicity. Part of a great early 50s trench series.

Good to hear! :D I prefer the SF version with the batter. Wish I had that one in red!

Did any one pick up any of the pennants in the sale of Bob Feller's family?

This was a very cool variant with a fish tail tip. I was an underbidder on it.

Great pennant!

But I wonder if the “fishtail” wasn’t a repair of a bad tip?

Yep... no way that's original to the pennant.

I followed but underbid on the other two 1954s which went higher than I thought. I really want one with the classic chief graphic, not Wahoo. That’s a tough one. The one in the auction had a lot of fading.

This one with the flags … I have a fishtail version that may have been sold after ‘54, the whole date is chopped off. It was a throw in with another pennant. It looks better with the different color flags, I have it in better condition but with all white flags.

Trench made at least seven dated 1954 Indians pennants that describe them as AL Champs …

I'm sure this one has been discussed previously though I don't recall. This has to be one of the earliest "Officially Licensed" pennants out there.

I don't recall "Officially Licensed" on any other pennants. Long Tassels. 3/4 or full size?

3/4. The brown version seems to be a little more common and has a more sophisticated trademark with an abbreviated "Off. Lic." and also mentioning Amco, NY. The trademark on this one is a little more elementary which I'm theorizing makes it earlier.

A few new pennants arrived today.

The Cubs Power is autographed by Ron Santo and Billy Williams. The sigs aren't authenticated but I was more interested in the pennant than the autos.

Let me authenticate those for you…..they’re good. :D

Three cool pennants from three different makers: Keezer, Ad Flag, ASCO

Thanks guys. Rob, I now consider the autos authenticated. :)

I have another Cub Power on the way with the single Ernie Banks photo. That'll be full set of the Cub Power Photo pennants.

Not a big football pennant guy but today gives me an excuse to post my two favorites, both are cloth, with the nod going to the Niners for the design and vivid colors.

I’ll go so far as to say, the 49ers pennant is among the 4-5 coolest looking pennants made by Trench in any sport.

I have a couple other versions of this pennant where the cloth isn’t faded but the design colors are all washed out.

Hey, pennant guys
 

Good feed, Greg! My two favorites I own!


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I’d agree the Niners is more attractive but “Go Get 'em Rams” is pretty funny.

Maybe FB Rob has a Chiefs/Bengals duo to share.

Love these … the Niner graphic is awesome!

The closest I can get to the Rams is a 49ers pennant in Rams colors. I need to take a new pick with the red and gold added to the group. Thanks to Rams fan Rob for sending most of these (3 of 5) my way.

"Go Get em Rams" might be the most prone to fading of any pennant ever made. Greg.... yours appears to have never seen the light of day. I have never seen one as dark blue as yours.

With regard to today's game, I always liked these two...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38374654295...MAAOSwCj9fdUFu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/31359697994...gAAOSw0uNg56dM

Love that rarer version of the Prospector, Erik (and very jealous)... but GO RAMS!

Regarding the other game... here are couple of sweet ones...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38470482323...QAAOSwF0Vh9H05

(tough to find rare/unique Bengals pennants)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/25521729337...EAAOSwTV1hfxMo

I sold mine (mint condition with no corner chip) for $90 a few years back. One of many dumb transactions I'd like to forget. So.... Go Bengals!

A nice Chiefs pennant just sold cheap (with a small blemish) that had the rarer white accents in the graphic … seems to be much harder to find. And yes the Rams must have been stored away, the colors are great. The blue cloth in general fades do easy.

Was it the "AFL Champions" version, or the regular one?

Oh it was a “regular” version, I should have mentioned that….

I can’t fathom how you non-team specific guys navigate ebay. I usually get about 400 results when searching just “san francisco giants pennant.” It does look like there’s some good stuff out there.

I have to do the search with a $20 - $10,000 range. So anything under $20 will not come up in the search. Yes, I have missed a few, but the time savings from avoiding endless modern junk is invaluable. I also have to exclude the words "Soccer" "Federation" "Futbol" "Mini" and Pin". That removes the plethora of soccer pennants, Mini Pennants, and Pins with mini pennants attached.

Even with that, I am scrolling endlessly over worthless pennants. Maybe one per every hundred gets my interest. And of those select few, 90% can be ruled out immediately because they're overpriced.

My patience for doing this has run thin, but I have snagged 4-5 good ones over the past month.

Well, let's see 'em! :D

The air brushing on the red and gold is the stuff of pennant legend. Hard to match that artistry. :p

I have 30 exclusions in my pennant search and I still get over 40,000 hits. I'm with Mark...I've lost the motivation and stamina to monitor ebay as religiously as I used to. There was a time where it was like shooting fishing a barrel and nice hits came a few times a week. I don't know if the well is running dry or the competition has just gotten too fierce, but I'm not seeing as much to get excited about as I was even just two or three years ago. Even when I check the sold results, I can't remember the last time I saw something I missed out on that disappointed me.

A lot of my best Bengal pennants appeared on the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show a few weeks back. This is "Bengal Jim" Foster. He's the Bengals nominee for the 2021 NFL Fan of the Year and he appeared in a segment the show did on the Bengals and their fans. Most of the pennants in the background he bought from me last year. It was cool to see them on TV.

Speaking of Bengals pennants...Now is a good time to sell them if you're so inclined.

:eek:

https://ibb.co/7rg8M3S

Haven't been on here in awhile. Hope all is well.
Looking to buy this pennant. Any help finding it would be greatly appreciated.😁

I have no why idea I did not start here.......jeeze I must be getting old. Wanted to see what you's guys's thoughts were on this. Got it at an auction with a wide variety of stuff (estate sale?) This was last summer, maybe August. The lot had about 35 pennants (I was going for an 8-8-88 Wrigely Field first night game)

Low and behold this was in there as well. Thoughts? Price range? I've read the last 3-4 pages of this thread and if this is real I may have lucked out....... :D

Also, you should seeeeeeeee some of these pennants if this is real b/c I'm pretty sure they're all real, and they're spectacular :cool: (I'll post additional pics if you guys think this is the real deal)

Definitely real deal. A fair price on that is probably in the $150 range. On ebay you can get lucky...I've seen it sell for under $100 more than once, but I've also seen it go for over $200.

It’s the real deal. Let’s see what else you got!

Whatcha got!!! (part 1)
 

Thanks everyone. Sorry I didn't get to this yesterday.

A little backstory, so I won pretty much all these in a single "lot" last summer from an online auction (not a major sports one, like a retail online one that sales literally everything, state by state). I think to get it shipped and everything I paid roughly $80 - $90 range and this was well before shipping starting to get more expensive, so maybe like $100 +/- total.

I'm going to start with the minor league stuff, then the "MLB teams other than the Yankees", and close with "odds and ends" (Part 1)

There is enough to do a Part 2 with just the Yankees, so I will follow up with that momentarily. I have a few question about a couple of these as well, but we'll get to that a little later. Sincere thanks for any and all help, in way over my head here.....

Whatcha got!!!! (Part 2, the Yankee years)
 

Part 2 as promised.....:D

(Very curious about the last one)

Nice haul for $100. If the intent is to sell, should be pretty easy to at least triple your investment...if you're really patient more.

Willis Wildkats? How random. That high school, from a pretty small Texas town, is about 10 minutes from my house. Funny how things move around the country.

I may sell a few, if I break even that would be cool. My wife is a Yankee's fan and so are my 5 brother in-laws. So I got that going for me, which is nice.

So on the Part 2 pictures? Would anyone please help me out with more info on the last one? Like how old maybe? It's made from a material I have not seen before in any pennants I have or have come across, its like if traditional felt and silk had a kid together??

Mike …. That’s a Beautiful black Yankees pennant with large Uncle Sam hat. Five best Trench pennants ever made, any sport

5. Tigers w/ tiger hugging Briggs
4. Yankees with large Uncle Sam hat
3. 49ers goldpanner
2. Indians 1954 teepee pennant
1. Brooklyn Dodgers Emmet Kelly

Yeah...I know what you're referring to. I call it cloth but I'm sure someone here has a more technical term. You rarely see one in that condition though. They're usually pretty yellowed. Looks like that one spent the last 50+ years in a footlocker.