Hey, pennant guys

[todeen]

Originally Posted by erikc21

We’ve covered this topic a lot, but I still enjoy a good before and after picture. I try to stay away from the color red, but this one improved quite a bit imho.

It’s a rainy and gloomy day here so the lighting doesn’t show the ‘after’ as well as I’d like.

Reds fan here, great job on a cool pennant. I never thought of cleaning a pennant. How did you do it?

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Originally Posted by todeen

Reds fan here, great job on a cool pennant. I never thought of cleaning a pennant. How did you do it?

In a nutshell....hang vertically, use painter’s tape to both nang and protect the spine (I tape mine to the shower wall), spray with a bleach solution, rinse rapidly and completely with clear water.

I would start with maybe a 25% bleach solution. Caution: red can be a tricky color. Other ink colors are usually unaffected but I ruined a valuable pennant with red ink. Plenty of discussion and examples in this thread.

[erikc21]

Originally Posted by todeen

Reds fan here, great job on a cool pennant. I never thought of cleaning a pennant. How did you do it?

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I believe baseball Rob posted the method a while back - although I don’t know the post number.

The process is basically staying the pennant with water, bleach and then water again. I will try to look for the original post as it gives good instructions. It’s important to keep the bleach away from the tassels and spine.

Rob, do you have the original post handy?

[Bumpus Jones]

Thought I'd play the B side this morning...

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Originally Posted by Bumpus Jones

Thought I'd play the B side this morning...

That’s B yootiful!

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by Bumpus Jones

Thought I'd play the B side this morning...

Yo Chris great to hear from you and WOW … stunning! I doubt many of those were made and for one to survive in such nice condition? Great find!

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Originally Posted by erikc21

Rob, do you have the original post handy?

I don’t.

[erikc21]

Originally Posted by todeen

Reds fan here, great job on a cool pennant. I never thought of cleaning a pennant. How did you do it?

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Here is a paraphrased set of instructions I use.

The process involved taking a spray bottle filled with water to saturate the pennant. After wet, take another spray bottle with bleach and spray on the fabric. Let it stand for a few minutes and then take the water sprayer and thoroughly spray until water has washed out the bleach. I usually dry by having a towel on the floor and another on top and dap the pennant. Then air dry. After it’s dry you can lightly iron the back of the pennant quickly and not too high of a setting as not to melt any graphics. Remember to tape the spine and tassels with multiple layers and don’t spray bleach close to the spine to to avoid bleeding.

Others may have slightly different processes.

[UKCardGuy]

I asked similar question back in March. Rob was helpful enough to repost the instructions on post #4384 with photos.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showpo...postcount=4384


There's also been a few people on the boards who are a fan of Retro Clean to wash pennants without bleaching them. I tried Retro Clean recently and it did a pretty good job.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Chris,
That banner and the buttons are sweeeeeet

[Bumpus Jones]

Thanks, Rob and Jason.

[UKCardGuy]

A couple of new arrivals today.

Catalog refs: NYG032-TREN and NYYK053-TBC

Not the rarest items but I was happy to pick them up in good condition at a good price.

Any ideas about the manufacturer of the Yankees pennant?

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

A couple of new arrivals today.

Catalog refs: NYG032-TREN and NYYK053-TBC

Not the rarest items but I was happy to pick them up in good condition at a good price.

Any ideas about the manufacturer of the Yankees pennant?

Yankees looks like a modern creation? Looks stiff and has creases.

[Domer05]

Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

A couple of new arrivals today.

Catalog refs: NYG032-TREN and NYYK053-TBC

Any ideas about the manufacturer of the Yankees pennant?

The Yankees pennant, I believe, is by ADFLAG. I think it may have been made somewhere in the 1960s.

The "New York" script matches other known ADFLAG pennants from that era for the Yankees and (AFL) Jets.

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

I asked similar question back in March. Rob was helpful enough to repost the instructions on post #4384 with photos.

https://www.net54baseball.com/showpo...postcount=4384


There's also been a few people on the boards who are a fan of Retro Clean to wash pennants without bleaching them. I tried Retro Clean recently and it did a pretty good job.

Retro Clean works especially good on white cloth Trench and ASCO pennants. They seemingly don’t have inks that run. I’ve had some fantastic results with some pennants I bought early in my collecting days that got stashed away. But I had a cheaper knock off Phillies pennant that ran.

Now the spine and tassels will run and so that’s where some diluted bleach is needed to clean that up. It helps to run a dowel through the spine.

I even had a blue Phillies blue Jay pennant that I got cheap because it was filthy, looked like it was used as an oil rag. For the heck of it I tried RC and the results were great.

[sayhey24]

Great '61 World Series banner Chris!

Picked up a few pennants at an estate sale this weekend -- always glad to find vintage baseball out in the wild.

Greg

[Bumpus Jones]

Thanks, Greg! Wish we had estate sales like that here.

[thetahat]

Well at least this comes from a smoke free home …