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Originally Posted by Domer05
Your instincts are correct. It's by Mitchell and Ness, ca. 2000s.
And, the auctioneer certainly knows better....  |
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Originally Posted by perezfan
Amazing how many people are "fooled" buy this one. I actually had to contact REA (sometime around 2010) to have this pennant taken down from one of their auctions.
Their consigner had a long-winded story about his father acquiring it at Ebbets Field. Nothing about it looks vintage, so I don't understand why people (who should know better) are continually duped by it.
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The auction was one of these live Facebook group auctions, and it was a couple that I had never seen before or had never participated in their sales. I was 99% sure it was a modern piece, but since I didn’t have absolute certainty, I didn’t say anything during the sale. I saw it when they first brought it up and then I left the sale for a bit and when I came back, it had been sold already. I believe it sold for about $155.
I actually can’t fault the auctioneers but so much because they try to sell so many different things that they come across that they aren’t well-versed in much of anything. There are often times where I get really good deals on stuff because the seller just isn’t knowledgeable enough about the item that they’re selling. I now know that this is definitely a modern piece, so I’m going to message the seller and hopefully they’ll do the right thing and let the buyer out of their bid.
Edited to add: I just spoke with the seller and told them that it was a modern piece and they thanked me very much and said that they had bought it as a vintage piece and didn’t know so they were going to contact the buyer and cancel the sale.