Hey, pennant guys

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by thetahat

Okay fellas … authentic (as advertised) or reproduction?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/29501092977...2&LH_Auction=1

It did pretty well.

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

It did pretty well.

Sadly. Obvious repro.

[perezfan]

UGH. Ebay is full of idiots.... both on the buying and selling side.

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by perezfan

UGH. Ebay is full of idiots.... both on the buying and selling side.

Here’s another that is definitely not vintage and not 1960s as described.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23458421249...iok77&LH_BIN=1

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by thetahat

Here’s another that is definitely not vintage and not 1960s as described.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23458421249...iok77&LH_BIN=1

Yeah- you'd think a guy named "Pennant guru" would know better.

[bocca001]

Here is an interesting one from a current ebay auction (it has a healthy BIN price, so don't feel like I am outing anything). It is two sided with 1945 Alabama Sugar Bowl graphics on one side and Chicago Cubs on the other. Seems like an unlikely pairing. Given the year, it may have just been an era of not wanting to waste. Maybe the Sugar Bowl stuff did not sell so they just turned it into baseball for the Spring? Of maybe it was something that was never supposed to make it off the factory floor? (trying something out?)

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by bocca001

Here is an interesting one from a current ebay auction (it has a healthy BIN price, so don't feel like I am outing anything). It is two sided with 1945 Alabama Sugar Bowl graphics on one side and Chicago Cubs on the other. Seems like an unlikely pairing. Given the year, it may have just been an era of not wanting to waste. Maybe the Sugar Bowl stuff did not sell so they just turned it into baseball for the Spring? Of maybe it was something that was never supposed to make it off the factory floor? (trying something out?)

That is indeed an interesting pairing. If nothing else, it puts a nice date on the Cubbie Pennant. That's always been one of my favorites, and the mid-1940s timing is just what the great graphics would imply.

Great post!