The Bears pennant definitely caught my eye. I don’t know much about football pennants but I see my share while searching for SFG stuff. My uneducated eye would have pegged it as 40’s-50’s and certainly not post 1965. Like Bocca, I think it would have been an odd style to copy later on. In the world of pennant mysteries, this is a good one.

edit: Rob and Marc - have you seen faded examples of this style pennant? The three shown all have great color, which would support post 1965. I’m leaning that way, anyway.

2nd edit: I just checked Rob’s fantastic football pennant site, feltfootball.com. Guru Rob also now thinks 1960’s. So my new question is, who the hell made these???

Thanks, guys! The pennants all were purchased from one person. Outside of the 1958 Giants, there were two other dated Orange Bowl pennants from 1957 and 1961. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...3b87fb21bd.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...563cb71402.jpg

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It's not in my collecting wheelhouse, but those are some very cool looking pennants.

Did anyone see these 2 that sold recently? I was an underbidder on the NY Giants pennant but the price got too steep for me. What are opinions on the NY pennant, is it a 100% cert that it's from the Giants? The font looks different to what was on their uniforms in those days.

The Miracle Braves pennant is seriously cool.


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Hanco used the design in the 1970s...for what that's worth.

The Bears looks old to me.

Funny how these are all very rare, but possibly so different.

The older ones seem to have the white spine and tassles.

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I'm leaning Hanco for all of them ... but, why wouldn't the Bears, Falcons, and 49ers versions have their maker's mark on them, as with this last one? They were definitely making sports pennants in the 1960s, when that Falcons one must've been made.

HANCO stood for Harmony Art & Novelty Co., and they go back to at least 1925 when they were classified as a pennant and pillow maker located in NYC.

This has maybe been discussed, but have Hanco baseball pennants turned up? Do I remember mini’s? Was Hanco prolific enough to warrant a write-up on pennantfever? BTW, I’m jonesing for more content on that site!

Even with the condition issues, the Red Sox pennant is crazy cool.

I could argue for or against the New York pennant being Giants. For: the Giants did wear purple and white for a time. Against: the NY is close, but not right.

More likely it’s New York University (NYU)