Hey, pennant guys

[bocca001]

Picked up some football pennants this week. Continuing with my SF fan who now lives in Houston collection (and Dan Pastorini played for Santa Clara University).

[jimm]

nice

[Fballguy]

Nice pennants Mark...Sorry you didn't have a third Niners pennant to share. Maybe by Labor Day.

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Hey Kyle - I found another with the ABC label:

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https://pennantfever.weebly.com/

I had never given much thought as to who was making pennants, back in the day. About the only vintage company I knew of was AdFlag and only because it's printed right on their pennants. I knew of Trench, but only as a modern producer. Here's a couple of modern (1970s) pennants with what appear to be manufacturer's marks (M in a circle and VET). I have no idea who or what they mean. Kyle?

Finally, another "cartoon font' (presumably Trench) pennant which can, obviously, be dated to 1962.

[Domer05]

Rob:

Thanks for the additional ABC label/pennant. I'll add that to my library for a future post.

Never seen that "M" mark before. Can't think of any manufacturer or concessionaire that it could have belonged to. Something to look further into.

I have, however, seen that "VET" mark on other 1970s era pennants. Still unsure what it stood for or whether it identified the maker versus the retailer's name. We know that concessionaire's marks were popular in the early 1970s, so we can't rule that possibility out, unfortunately.

More work to do....

[Domer05]

One more thing: I also noted on your '62 photo pennant that those same initials "WC" appear in the upper left corner of the pennant. So, that's now two different Trench pennants from that year with these initials. Can't be the artist's initials, as we last suspected.

Unless he/she is also a photographer.

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I just noticed the W.C., too. I’ll see if any of my fellow SF collectors, who don’t post here, can shed any light...

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Originally Posted by Domer05

One more thing: I also noted on your '62 photo pennant that those same initials "WC" appear in the upper left corner of the pennant. So, that's now two different Trench pennants from that year with these initials. Can't be the artist's initials, as we last suspected.

Unless he/she is also a photographer.

One of my Giants collector frenemies thinks it stands for WinCraft. It could be. I was surprised to learn from their website that WinCraft has been around since 1961. And they do spell it with an upper case W and C.