Hey, pennant guys

[ooo-ribay]

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???

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

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???

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

[bocca001]

The Bears looks old to me.

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

[cmoore330]

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

[Domer05]

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.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Domer05

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!

[Domer05]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

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!

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.