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Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo
This pennant has been sold as “genuine” for years. I have pointed this out to auction houses, eBay sellers, etc all to no avail. This pennant was made in the 80’s - 90’s, but I don’t have any details. The only thing that makes sense is a Mitchell & Ness from their earliest production. Mitchell & Ness made very high quality reproductions and sold them along with their jerseys in their catalogs. I used to have an account with them and would buy jerseys to get autographed. There are other pennants too (black 59 White Sox, etc) that get too passed off as authentic. They generally only reproduced very rare desirable pennants that most collectors could never find. You need to remember that the only place you could find pennants back in the day was at shows or antique shows. There were no auctions with photographs for the most part. We take for granted the 1000’s of pennants you scroll through on eBay every day. Anyways, this is a repro.
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Mitchell and Ness pennants all seem to have designs and lettering with the same feel as the pennant itself. This ‘55 pennant looks like it was screened. I agree that it’s a repro but it seems like a different process than M&N.
Like Mark says, this was made to deceive. The creator made a point to match the traditional Trench font used in the names, and came really close but left enough of a difference to tell.