There is a 1913-14 Christy Mathewson Baseball World Tour Pennant coming up for auction in Heritage with opening bid on 10/28.
No picture yet on it
Any thoughts on it or the history of the "world tour" behind it?

I doubt you did it wrong, Gary. If the paint is cracked, the dye is gonna come through.

Very minor cracking and the fabric had faded almost completely white so it was like starting with a clean slate. I actually mixed green dye first and while testing the color on an old towel, the lightbulb came on and I switched to Navy. I couldn't be happier with the results.

Yes Rob...Just sprayed it from the back. The whole process took about 45 minutes or so. I think I saturated it four times, checking progress every 10 minutes or so. This one was easy.

A Christy Mathewson Baseball World Tour Pennant was sold at Christies last year https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6296494

It isn't going to be a cheap auction....that's for sure.

There's a book about the Grand Tour. You can find it on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Tour-End-All-.../dp/0803267487

Wow that is an incredible looking pennant and the color is so crisp.

Thanks for sharing the LINK and the description gave my some background on the history of it.

I will keep an eye on it but I can see it will not go cheap.

Has anybody seen union labels on pennants before? I found this article in union labels for vintage clothing which seems somewhat related [emoji2375].I know this isn’t a sports flag, but curious.

https://sammydvintage.com/vintage-st...-labels-ilgwu/

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Interesting, Erik! I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that no one here has a baseball pennant with a union label...

Haha - probably not, but figured I’d at least bring it up! [emoji16]

I wonder if this mark conveys that the pennant was manufactured using union labor; or, that it was sold by a vendor that was part of this union? I suspect the latter....

Still always amazes me the graphics and the details they can do on pennant’s