Hey, pennant guys

[MK]

Mike ... cool pennant. I’d guess 1920s?

Thanks.....20s or 30s is my best guess.

[bocca001]

Nice pennants Mike and Greg.

[Fballguy]

Knocked out of commission with a cold today so I'm a few episodes into an American Pickers marathon. It's not often I've seen them take interest in a pennant but in the "California Picking" episode they found one they wanted. It was a 26 inch 1946 Laconia, NH motorcycle rally pennant. Mike says he thinks the retail is $500-$600 and pays $400 for it. This is a picture of that pennant (but not the one Mike bought):



So I got curious and did some research. I could only find one sale of this pennant and it sold for $71 in 2014. One sale doesn't tell much of a story though, so I decided to search for Laconia bike rally pennants from any year and found quite a few. Unfortunately for the American Pickers, the highest sale from any year was only $286 and that was from the 1937 rally. I'm thinking Mike might still have this one hanging on his wall.

Can't say I haven't made that same mistake a time or two.

Then in the next episode...also in California...One of the guys they visit has an old San Francisco Giants pennant hanging on the wall. It's this one from Egner's book. They had no interest. LOL

[perezfan]

Unfortunately much of that show is staged. Still good entertainment value... just not completely representative of what’s being portrayed.

We actually know someone who was on it, and stated that the majority was scripted. So who really knows what they paid (or if they bought it at all?)

Seems like $400 would’ve been a high price to pay, when pickers like this normally offer pennies on the dollar. It may have been a legit sale, but more likely it is just made for a good story line.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Unfortunately much of that show is staged. Still good entertainment value... just not completely representative of what’s being portrayed.

We actually know someone who was on it, and stated that the majority was scripted. So who really knows what they paid (or if they bought it at all?)

Seems like $400 would’ve been a high price to pay, when pickers like this normally offer pennies on the dollar. It may have been a legit sale, but more likely it is just made for a good story line.

Yeah...They contacted my ex-brother in law a few years back as well. He talked to them but then decided against it. I always thought it was funny how they offered such good prices with small margins...clearing $50 maybe $100. That's not how it works in the real world.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Fballguy

Then in the next episode...also in California...One of the guys they visit has an old San Francisco Giants pennant hanging on the wall. It's this one from Egner's book. They had no interest. LOL

$150-250 would be high for that pennant. Kinda tough but not overly so.

[Bumpus Jones]

Has anyone ever seen a pennant with slits cut down the spine ostensibly to hold a stick?

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Bumpus Jones

Has anyone ever seen a pennant with slits cut down the spine ostensibly to hold a stick?

Not I. Odd, too, that the tassels are cut with the pennant. Wasting a lot of "felt," right there.

[Duluth Eskimo]

I haven’t seen that pennant before, but it makes sense as there is no piping to slip the stick in to. I don’t remember seeing anything like that.