1936 Yankees and Giants Pennants

[Bumpus Jones]

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[Duluth Eskimo]

I think you got a good deal too. I have been purchasing too much stuff lately to push it too hard. Either that or I need to refine my collection a little. As I said, I have two other 1936 versions (neither as good as this), but sometimes you just can't have them all. I really was thinking in that $1200 range too. Not sure where the other one came from for under $500 as I have seen just about every great pennant for sale either on Ebay or major auctions in the last 10-15 years and I never saw it. If you got it from a private party, congrats to you as I think you got a GREAT deal.

Thanks to Mike for posting those others. The Pirates and the Senators were the two others I was thinking of. No one has commented on thoughts about their origins. It seems too ironic that there are so few of these style pennants, but they span that much of a time period. Any thoughts on them being some kind of premium? I have never seen anything advertised for any of these though.

[thetahat]

I tend to think they are fully legit, i.e. made at the time of date on pennant. Of course I want to believe that, as I own a few like this. The only team pennants I have seen of this type *without* a championship noted are from the two St. Louis teams. Some are dated (I have '39 Browns and have seen '38, '39 Cardinals), others not dated. The older ones have the grommets that attach the tassels; the newer ones have one line of stitching at the wide end. None of them have that second strip of felt for holding a dowel.

If these pennants were all made at once, wouldn't they note a team's World Series championship instead of simply noting "champions" for both AL and NL teams (I own the '20 Dodgers and have seen the '20 Indians.) Also some pennant designs have lasted dozens of years. Consider that '55 WS pennant with the fancy feathering. That basic design lasted all the way to the early 80's.

As a side note I have never seen a super-old pennant from either the Cardinals or the Browns. Which makes me wonder if this is all a regional thing.

[perezfan]

Good post, Greg...

I agree with all of it, except I have seen exactly one very early Cardinals Pennant (Oversized Teens) in 20+ years of collecting and obsessing over these.