Picked up a NY Giants pennant. This one shares characteristics with a few others that have the same big "G" with either "NY" or "New York" within. Don't we know the maker of the generic stadium (in this case, the Polo Grounds) one (Trench?)?

edit: I guess the G’s are all slightly different.

The results of my Bullets Championship Pennant cleaning.

Ultimately I ended up soaking it but in a suboptimal (not laid out flat) way. That was the last soak I did and ended up doing that a couple of times yesterday.

While the blue border took the brunt of the cleaning, I am overall very pleased with the end result. I actually was not paying attention to the fading of the blue border and this is fixable if I choose to do so in the future.

The events follow:

You can see from the first picture how ugly this thing is.

I took a spray bottle and added Oxy Clean to hot water and commenced to drowning it rather liberally front and back. The first time I rinsed it after the cleaning it has a horrible stink to it. That went away after a few rinse-clean cycles.

It was getting clean but not clean enough for me as it seemed that all the gunk was draining down to the tip but never really getting fully clean.

I did the majority of the spraying and cleaning on Friday-Saturday. It got to a point where I had to do something different as it was just not getting completely cleaned.

I ended up using the vat that I used to clean Ernie in and folded (blasphemy I know) the tip over right between the e and the t in bullets. Then gave it two long soaks on Sunday. Around 5PM I inspected the results and was satisfied that I wasn't going to do any additional cleaning at that point. I rinsed it and set it on a couple of towels to dry out overnight.

The border certainly faded but again, I am good with that and can fix it in the future if need be.

Bottom line. I will definitely use my MIL tub next time as I really need that sort of space. I have a Redskins pennant, Super Bowl XVII, that can stand a cleaning and will use the tub for that one for sure.

Last picture shows it next to my regular Bullets pennant. As you can see, the championship one is even brighter than that one. But I won't be cleaning the regular one, it is nice enough as it is.

Now I have to come across a Senators 1924 pennant, I have found a reproduction one and that will more than likely have to do!

Thanks for all the assistance and here are the pictures of the process.

The pennant came out great :D with the exception of the border :mad:

At the risk of being expelled from this group, I have two spine suggestions:

Blue sharpie (I’ve done this) or blue RIT dye, dabbed from a Q-tip.

HAhaahaha, great minds think alike. I was considering the RIT dye method. I figured the blue sharpie would bleed maybe too much. And maybe I could better control the dye.

Too funny! A most excellent answer Dr. ooo-ribay. After all, this one is not ever gonna get sold now that I have it in my clutches, ain't going anywhere!

Cheers,

B.T.

With apologies to the greater group.

Speaking of a ‘24 Senators pennant …

Thanks, at least I know what one looks like. Owning one will be a different story though.

Awesome pennant for sure.

Cheers,

B. T.

Just arrived. Hard to find in black. Oooribay calls these cartoon font pennants.

I like how you photograph your pennants. Do you use a black background or do you somehow photoshop it?

Rob, it's my belief that the maker of your bottom two pennants featuring the generic stadium scene (here, "Polo Grounds") is Trench. What's interesting about these two is they're monochrome; and every other I've seen featuring this artwork was multicolored.

Typically these stadium scene pennants were made on a 3/4 size format: 8" x 26".

The top two closely resemble the text of the Trench ones below. Good observation. They may have altered the text ever so slightly to print these on a bigger, full size pennant. Are they indeed bigger?

I've been photographing them on my ping pong table. For some reason, the pictures come out better when the lights are off in the room (with no flash). My iphone takes decent pictures in darkish environments. I used to use a lighter background, but I've been liking the darker one lately. I think it makes the colors stand out more.