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effe 09-22-2023 01:06 PM

Might be glue stains from the photo.

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UKCardGuy 09-22-2023 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ser1979 (Post 2375124)
Need help from the cleaning experts on this one. Picked up this 74 team pennant the other day. Been cleaning with water / bleach mixture and so far its done pretty good at getting the brown out. Issue I have is the photo was so bad I had to cut it out and there are some stains that just won't go away. I've tried using retro clean on the stains with no luck. Before I go to just straight bleach does anyone else have a suggestion. I only paid $25 for it so if I ruin it I wont be heart broken.

That pennant is definitely bleachable. You just need to be sure to cover the spine and not get the bleach near the spine or it'll get discolored.

Fair warning. bleaching can cause colors to bleed.

Rob has posted photos and instructions in the past. But in short, use masking tape to fix the pennant in a shower. (The spine should be at the top and the tip pointing down.) Ensure the masking tape is covering the whole of the spine. Get a bottle of spray bleach and spray the pennant working you're way from the area near the spine to the tip. Leave it to sit for 10 mins (maybe more). Then rinse (while still keeping the spine covered).

Domer05 09-22-2023 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by ooo-ribay (Post 2374809)
Since we have no oversized 1910's pennants to talk about, let's discuss these stiff orange things a little more..

First of all, is the original "crowd at feet" Giants pennant AdFlag? It kind of seems that way, but Kyle does not show it in his blog. I actually kind of like this pennant, with the adoring crowd of men, women and a kid. All it's missing is a dog! Kyle does show Marc's Astos pennant as being AdFlag.

Now, for the stiff orange things.. besides the orange "crowd at feet" and New York Giants "Giant in the Polo Grounds," there's also this one. It's a remake of a non-AdFlag (Trench?). This one is available for the bargain price of $99.99. :p These three are, obviouly, all Giants. Were they done with other teams/designs? I don't think AdFlag did them because Kyle says AdFlag was out of the sports pennant business in the mid 60s. These seem later.

Speaking of Kyle...I'm jonesing for some new content on Pennant Fever. I know he's busy but he teased an article on AMCO(?).

The tiny fans worshiping the Giant pennant looks like ADFLAG's work, to me.

Those two repros you showed--originally done in the 1950s by Trench--were released around 1980 by ... Trench, best I can tell. They remade a few of their 1950s-era designs, and these repros were sold for a few years. Later versions of the repro will be framed in white, because they were printed on white felt.

New content posted on Pennant Factory just this month. New piece being written, as we speak, for Pennant Fever due out in a few weeks. :)

ooo-ribay 09-23-2023 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Domer05 (Post 2375259)

New content posted on Pennant Factory just this month. New piece being written, as we speak, for Pennant Fever due out in a few weeks. :)

Wow! I’m way behind on your recreations! That will give me something to read while I wait for your next pennantfever blog.

It’s a shame I hate all “your” teams. :cool:

effe 09-24-2023 04:37 PM

Picked this one up this weekend. This is the first example of this particular pennant I've found that hadn't faded to gray.

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=36649

Vintagedeputy 09-24-2023 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by effe (Post 2375615)
Picked this one up this weekend. This is the first example of this particular pennant I've found that hadn't faded to gray.

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=36649

That’s a beauty!

UKCardGuy 09-24-2023 06:53 PM

Agreed. That Braves pennant looks to be in excellent condition. Great pickup.

perezfan 09-24-2023 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by effe (Post 2375615)
Picked this one up this weekend. This is the first example of this particular pennant I've found that hadn't faded to gray.

https://www.net54baseball.com/pictur...ictureid=36649

Great pickup. Tough one, let alone in that condition. Very nice find!

Vintagedeputy 09-24-2023 09:43 PM

I cannot understand the auction mentality of some people.

I was watching a pennant auction. Starting price was $9.00 and it’s probably a $30 pennant. With 3 days left in the auction, someone jumped the bid from $9 to $33. Why?

I can’t understand why people feel the need to bid so high with so many days left to go. Makes me crazy.

UKCardGuy 09-25-2023 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy (Post 2375675)
I cannot understand the auction mentality of some people.

I was watching a pennant auction. Starting price was $9.00 and it’s probably a $30 pennant. With 3 days left in the auction, someone jumped the bid from $9 to $33. Why?

I can’t understand why people feel the need to bid so high with so many days left to go. Makes me crazy.

I kind of like when people do that because I get a feel of the demand before the last minute and I can adjust my final bids accordingly.

Sometimes, I'll even make a bid (not at my maximum) a few days before an auction ends to see who bites. If I see my bid is automatically outbid, then I know that someone has possibly put a high max bid. If I see two people outbid me in within an hour then I know that there are a number of keen bidders.


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