Here’s the same Braves pennant with inverted colors.

Speaking of...

Hanco
 

To my knowledge, HANCO just made this series of AL and NL minis from ca. 1965'ish....

Pretty poor quality, even for minis.

They were a vendor at the 1939-40 world's fair in NYC, so they likely made/sold some souvenir pennants there. Assuming so, I haven't seen any pennants from the fair bearing their maker's mark or label on it.

I haven't found too much on them pre-1960s. I definitely wasn't aware of these football pennants. I have to agree with the others: I would've pegged that Bears pennant as being from the 1940s.

It wouldn't be unprecedented that a design from the 1940s was re-used in the 1960s. Interesting too, at least to me is the evolution of the design over the years...the flags becoming more like flags, the fans in the stadium going from ink blobs to people....and the punter looking kind of Asian on the Rams pennant. The Rams must've been the latest in the cycle.

Here is an older and newer for the kicker for the same team. I like how the cleats and helmet have changed. Maybe it's technically a different design.

As for what we are saying might be HANCO pennants, the older ones (Bears, 49ers, I see Redskins on Rob's site, and probably others) are multicolored and designed well. Seems strange for a one off "series" from a maker known for the cheap minis (although the minis are multicolored as well) and Rob's NY Giants seems to be on the hastily made level as well.

That's a great observation, Rob. Could've just been HANCO's stock football artwork; and they just refined it over the years.

The only other baseball felt novelty item by HANCO was this felt figure pennant by them, ca. late 1970s, I believe....

So, they were likely supplying stadia with felt novelty items from, at a minimum, ca. 1960 - late 1970s.

These images have been discussed. They belong to a buddy of mine. I think he has dropped the price and I'll bet he'd take 8 bucks. Just putting it out there in case anyone would want them as a peripheral pennant item.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40513599943...Bk9SR-67hvq1ZA

Timely post. I think these were made by the same company (HANCO?) as the minis that Domer posted. Also many of those football pennants posted including the 1958 playoff. Similar in design and construction.

That atrocity could have (rightfully) been Hanco’s death knell.