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.

Yup.... I agree cloth is the right term for it.

Look very closely.... is it comprised of thousands of tiny threads compressed together?

Mike is there any chance that you could post a close up photo of the material. For those of us who haven't had that pennant, It'd be great to see what it's like.

Apologies on the delay

I think really the key feature here is that these "cloth" pennants feature a woven fabric, as seen in this close-up photo; whereas the traditional pennant features a felted fabric.

Felted fabrics aren't woven; rather, they're made by taking millions of wool or polyester fibers, rolling them flat under great pressure, then curing the flattened result with a heat or water treatment to bind everything in place.

That's why, if you examine an old felt pennant up close, its composition would look random--nothing like these woven ones.

That's also why, when you cut woven fabric, the threads along the leading edge quickly loosen (because the interlocking of the threads has been broken, which is what binds that type of material together), leading to frayed edges. :eek: That doesn't happen with felted fabric.

Cloth > Felt in my opinion

Love the look of a smooth, unfaded 1950s cloth pennant. Also harder to find without paint cracking.

Now the question is … when were the first cloth pennants made? The 1954 WS pennant made by the mystery NYC area company seems to be the oldest dated cloth pennant. I also have a 3/4 Browns Keezer in cloth …

Which 1954 WS pennant, featuring “my” team, are you referencing? :confused:

Here are two recent pickups. I'm generally mixed on autographed pennants, but like Vida Blue on the Giants. He was one of their best players when I first became a fan. The Bees pennant is from 1984, which I can tell because it is signed by a future Japanese HOFer (Kim Kudoh). I've posted about these Bees teams elsewhere, I think. In a nutshell, they were horrible, but they had a bunch of players who went on to play for the Seibu Lions, and they became a powerhouse in Japan. Kind of cool.

You had that pennant ^^^^ without an autograph, didn’t you?

I have a few versions of the Giants pennant. This happens to be the first with a white spine... but I really liked the Vida Blue addition (and thanks to Erik for making this one available to me).

As Rob and Erik already know, the pennant also came with this pennant-shaped menu, which clearly identifies the Giants as the rightful 1979 World Champions.

Really nice Giants pennant. That has to be a tough one to find. They finished 20 games under .500 and in 4th place so wishful thinking I guess.

Well, if Oooribay doesn't have it, you know it is tough to find.

This cloth Oilers just arrived. I have 2 or 3 copies of this, but they are all somewhat browned due to age. This one is blue as can be. My picture doesn't do it justice. And, related to our discussion about cloth/woven pennants... one easy way to tell us to hold them up to the light.

I know Greg likes cloth pennants. Waiting for him to start on a single bar cloth run : )

Luv ya, blue! :p

Strangely I can’t find a pic anywhere but it is the ‘54 version of this pennant, clearly same company

Is it this one? This is Oooribay's, not mine. But it is on my want list.

Yep! That’s it. Sweet sweet pennant.

From the 1957 ASG highlight film (YouTube) … selling AdFlags at the ballpark?

Love that. I picked up this 1976 ASG pennant yesterday but I'd rather have that lot of 57's. :D

Never noticed this before. Full size Keezer Packers pennant made it into the Super Bowl I highlight film.

The mini of that Packers pennant just sold for about $800. Wonder how much a full size would cost?

That series of mini pennants is the only one remotely interesting to me and judging from the prices, I'm not the only one.

So did I steal mine for under $100 or was the recent one on Ebay an aberration? Or is orange just a rarer color?

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=32253

You stole it! The Cowboys sold for almost as much as the Packers and the Raiders broke $500. Jets $300. It's a desirable set. Unfortunately, the seller had all the auctions ending during the Super Bowl and I got shut out.

BUT ... your team won :p

So you can't feel too bad.

Feel bad? I've been on cloud 10 for the past 48 hours. I'd gladly trade all my pennants for a Rams Super Bowl victory...but luckily I didn't have to. ;)

Here is the 49ers Keezer mini. A bit of dirt/stain, but so rare I could not pass it up.

Looks great to me (aside from it being the Niners :D).

That was quick!

A Giants collecting buddy came over a couple of days ago. He had this 3/4 size, spineless pennant. Up until recently I had never seen the LH batter and bridge pennant in a 3/4 size. This one is even smaller than the one I had. Stitch holes confirm that it used to have a spine. My buddy is not really a "pennant guy." Friend that I am, I gave him ten bucks for it. :p

You sir, are a kind and generous soul.

I know we all have a disdain for minis, but this photo was identified as a "1952 Topps display." What Giants pennant is this (right side)? The graphics look kind of similar to this orange one.

If any of you have any insight into my Topps/Bazooka post, please share!

Is that a vintage photo or a modern recreation of a topps display? I never envisioned a store or vendor in 1952 having that many boxes of cards for sale. Where would he be selling those?

I believe it’s a vintage photo. It came off the Keyman website.

That I am. :p

Great photo! Funny, I always thought these pennants were part of a promo set offered by Bazooka gum--not Topps.

By the 1960s there was a similar promo set offered by Bazooka; however, that set had "Bazooka" inscribed on the front.

Here's the Brooklyn one seen in your picture, up close, measuring about 14" in length.

Cool! Bazooka was owned by Topps (I think).

Just noticed that the 49ers miner on the Keezer mini pennant is very similar to this transfer decal, suggesting that Keezer made it too?

What all/else did Keezer make?

Some very sharp looking and unique pennants

Love the thread keep them coming

In addition to full and mini size felt pennants, Keezer also manufactured felt emblems, available for iron-on transfers to caps or shirts. By the 1960s, they were involved in sportswear, mostly shirts and sweatshirts.

See: https://pennantfever.weebly.com/blog.../keezer-mfg-co

Loving the Keezer decal.

On the theme of smaller pennants here's a few 3/4 size pennants that arrived this week.

• The DiMaggio is missing the tip and has a couple of pin holes, but otherwise is pretty sharp.
• The Banks has a little bit of foxing on the photo. I'm not sure if the foxing can be cleaned.
• I think the 1930s Cubs in pretty rare.

Nice pickups Gary!