I’ve never seen that design before. I’ll be interested to hear how many have seen this one before and if there are other teams made with the same design.

This almost looks like folk art. Really cool.

Here’s one of mine.

That White Sox batter pennant is just awesome. Might be one of the best uniforms ever. (Replaced by *the* very best uniform, Chisox circa 1976-81.)

The Pirates (and thus the Braves) appear to be of the same maker as these, by virtue of similar fonts:

I can see how the font of the TEAM name is similar on the bottom three but not on the Dodgers. :confused:

Can't thank you enough for changing the theme back to triangular pennants.

Those die cut "center dowel" creations were starting to depress me. Especially the disturbing and creepy Philadelphia Phillis Sextuplets.

That's a cool Pirates pennant. I've seen maybe 4 from the rare series, but yours is the first Pirates. Must've been made in very limited quantities. Would love to find a Reds version some day.

Slightly less nightmare inducing...

Your welcome. I got this in a group of 60's pennants on Christmas eve. I had never seen this type before and also thought it was a little basketballish
but with the stadium background, Baseball

I hate the Phil and Phillis

Then again....A leering Phil reaching out to grope Phillis with a prodigious bulge in his pants, isn't much of an improvement.

Lettering in city name is identical on Brooklyn and St. Louis. Also similar construction. Here’s another that fits … I also think the Giants Cinderella Boys is in this mold.

Rare scores on Ebay are becoming...ummm...pretty rare. But this was a nice one. I had never seen before. I don't believe the maker of these has ever been identified. Artwork seems similar to a Joe Dimaggio out there. Potentially one of the "rarer" Jackie Robinson pennants too.

Once I was blind but now I see.

Rob, I saw that disappeared pretty quickly, and I assumed Jonsstats grabbed it. I believe Mark has one, but haven’t seen any others. Nice pickup. I don’t search eBay often enough to get any great finds anymore. Someone always beats me to them.

Rick

I got pretty lucky on this one. I had to scroll down a bit before I saw it which is exceedingly rare these days. I expected to get bad news when I hit buy it now but to my surprise it was available. Usually the good ones are gone within seconds.

Great score Rob...

So impossible to beat everyone else to the punch these days. Requires lots of persistence and lotsa luck. I do have one of these Pee Wees with a similarly blunted tip. Have never seen another.

The maker of these pennants did a number of Brooklyn Pennants, a couple of Braves and a NY Giants that I'm aware of. I think some of them say "My Fan" in small font, and most/all seem to be 3/4 size. Whoever the "mystery maker" is, I like their artwork a lot.

Everyone probably already saw this but just in case. Now available for 20% off (with coupon) if interested. Reputable dealer too.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/36393140924...mis&media=COPY

Is there a way to tell how many minutes this was listed for before you swooped in?

I'm reasonably certain this mystery maker was AMCO, a local Brooklyn-based pennant maker that specialized in Dodger pennants in the late 1940s, early 50s.

More to come on AMCO in '23 on Pennant Fever, when time permits.

There’s another Dodgers pennant that, I think, has the same tiny batter graphic as the one inside the ‘D’. I think it’s a rare bum pennant, also not full-size but 2/3 or 3/4. Someone posted it here, maybe Mark? I know it looks familiar.

EDIT: Yep, Mark, back on page 5 … and yes it includes “my fan”

Great pickup Rob. And a pretty reasonable price too.

A few new year's arrivals for the thread.

Great stuff, Gary! I love the little batter on the 1967 ASG pennant.

Same here.

That '67 All Star is a pretty tough pennant. And a great one... the longest ever ASG with Tony Perez finally emerging as the hero with a bomb off of Catfish Hunter. Trench did a crappy job with the tassels though. They used those "crispy" brittle tassels that would break off if bent just the slightest bit too far.

I think the ‘69 might be just as tough …

Thanks guys. I think the 67 ASG is by Trench. Is that right?

Any ideas about the 69?

Both are Trench IMO

Domer … these two pennants seem to be of the same year and same maker. Wouldn’t this suggest a company besides Trench? The scroll graphic is so radically different from what we know to be Trench.

Used the extended weekend to add these to the basement gallery. They cover a food pantry, I did have 1980s pennants on them that I didn’t mind cutting up. Anyway, most of these are from the “sliding runner” pennant company - one that doesn’t get enough love in my opinion. Some of their graphics are actually pretty cool and they gave us the full body roster pennant.

It would actually be a cool display to have the sliding runner pennant for all 16 teams, but I don’t think I’ve seen it for either the Tigers or Pirates. (I have seen it for the IL Orioles.)

The bottom one from '51 featuring the double-wide scroll, in my opinion, was likely made by AMCO. They made a similar one for the '49 Dodgers.

The top one is a bit of an anomaly.... It could be from '51; but I don't think we can completely rule out '54 either (having said that, I can't recall seeing a Cleveland Indians AL champs mate/variant, can you?). As you know, my opinion is that Trench made this "insert stadium name series" throughout the 1940s and 50s. I based that opinion on two important characteristics in them: they were all 8" x 26"; and they were polychromatic. Unfortunately, this NY Giant pennant is full size and monochrome.... So, I'm reluctant to label it as being made by Trench.

Perhaps it was a knock off? If so, a knock off by AMCO? That might explain why the "NEW YORK" letter scripts look so similar. Or, was the concessioner at the Polo Grounds only interested in buying full size, one color pennants from Trench?? I have no idea.

But it's an interesting pennant.

Would you guys guess this pennant was originally white? It's a shame it's so hammered. Very unique look. If I were a D**gers guy, I mught have to try a little "restoration." :p

It was once blue. It would not have a white spine against white cloth. And the blue cloth on pennants of this era is notorious for fading to that drab brownish grey color.

Here’s the back of the Cindarella Boys, it’s sealed so I don’t want to take it out. The tassels are identical to that of the orange: thick and gray. Here also is the 1950 Phillies which is also full-size, along with a known 1950 Trench. They just seem so radically different in style.

Yes, interesting pennant and discussion indeed …

Here is a different version with better color that I picked up pretty cheaply as it was torn in 3 places and had the missing tip. I did glue the tears so it looks a little nicer, but the tip is beyond repair. Still, the artwork is terrific.

Rick
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The artwork is terrific. I wonder who made it?

I just picked up (and probably overpaid for) a 3/4 version of the LH batter and bridge. Being only 3" shorter, this is really the 9/10th version :p. Again, the 9/10th version has a different "F" than is ever seen on the full size versions.

I also just picked up this little "chrome" charm to go with the "bronze-ish" pin I already had. This is the same Giant seen on various NY and SF pennants.

There are also subtle differences in the bridge cables, significant enough to suggest a different screen.

Fascinating to see an entire run of these little gumball pins for the original 16 franchises--I guess they're gumball issues, not sure if anybody's proved that--pop up on eBay, a collection that had to take a while for somebody to put together. Quite hard to come by, as are their metal twins as shown. Love this kind of oddball stuff.

All it needs is for someone to perform an addatiptomy.

What’s “it”? What’s an “addatiptomy”? :confused:

That’s the weird thing….you would think they somehow would have “shrunk” the screen. Not sure how they would have done that in the 1960s but I’m remembering those overhead projectors from elementary school….

I've often contemplated the same about identical screened images that vary in size. How did 1960s technology handle that?

Kyle?

Was wondering the same about addatiptomy.

Something along the lines of add a tip to my bill?

the blue Dodger pennant just needs tip replacement.

Aha. Should've figured that one out. :rolleyes:

Ahhhh! I thought maybe it was a procedure for the Giant’s comically small head. :p

“Fishtail” cut? :cool:

I thought an addatiptomy was hilarious. And converting to a fishtail tip may be perfect. But I will probably just leave it as is. I think a lot of the early LA pennants were bootlegs or made in small numbers. I plan on putting together a post on 3 I have that I believe were just ordered up by the Dodgers for special events in 1957-58 and not available for purchase.

Rick

Looking forward to that!