Regarding the Giants pennant I just posted...

The lettering is sewn. The owner also has this pennant; letters also sewn. The tag says "Uniform Embroidery (indecipherable) Embroidery. I'm wondering if both these pennants are "one offs," made for a customer at an embroidery shop.

The stitching on the Mays pennant looks period as does the label and the way it is sewn on. I have never seen a pennant like that, but doesn’t mean it’s not a one off. Looks factory made though.

I think both those pennants are available. Anyone interested can PM me and I’ll put you in touch with the seller.

edit: can anyone make out the name of the embroiderer?

Took a peek on Worthpoint and in 2,600 SF Giants pennant sales, neither of these showed up. Not that that tells us much.

Adventures in Sold Listings...
 

Found this one while perusing "sold items" on eBay....surprising result. Not that this is a common pennant, but typically modern era (I believe this is from 1968), undated college football pennants don't bring too much.

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That price is nuts! What's also amazing is the fact that the top 5 bids all came from different bidders.

Must be something that we're missing on this one. VA Tech - Late 1960s - Minor Bowl... should equate to about $50 max. :confused:

Did you look through 2600 pennants???? :eek:

Oh yeah...It's not as bad as it sounds. You can scroll through pretty quickly. Took about 10 minutes.

Hanco
 

Anyone remember the Hanco discussion we had a while back? Trying to remember what type pennant prompted it. Anyway...This is the first Hanco football pennant I've seen. Wondering if there are others out there. It's a 1930s graphic but on a 1960s (I'm guessing) pennant.

Kyle...Did you say you were working on a Hanco entry for your site?

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Hanco
 

Rob: I believe these were the first Hanco pennants we identified as being made for a professional sports team. They made an AL and NL set of minis around 1962. The other pennants we found of theirs were all souvenir ones.

Your New York Football Giants pennant is the first football pennant of theirs I've seen.

It's always possible they had been making sports pennants prior to the 1960s--but, not labeling them with a mark??

Suffice it to say I have not found much info on HANCO. They were located in New York according to their mark. That's where my last research trail ran dry.

Today I found a Hanco Art & Novelty, Inc. in the New York state corporate directory. They first incorporated in 1980; but, that doesn't necessarily mean they didn't exist before then, as many businesses don't immediately choose to incorporate. It was dissolved in 1991. This has to be them.

No plans to write a piece on them at Pennant Fever, as of yet; but, I'd consider it if I learned that they had made more sports pennants during their existence.