Hey, pennant guys

[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!

[ooo-ribay]

I found the ebay listing….the guy has a lot of Bama stuff, so I’m sure it’s legit.

[Tigerden]

I have seen that Cubs pennant in the past with graphics on both sides. I don’t recall it being an Alabama Sugar Bowl pennant. I want to think
its comes up more frequently in blue.

[Duluth Eskimo]

That’s a tough Alabama pennant too. There were plenty of unsold stock on those bowl game pennants especially when they dated them thus only allowing one game to sell them at. If they weren’t sold on that day, good luck selling them after the fact. Most of these double sided pennants are from the Chicago area so I’m sure whoever made this one came home with unsold stock and figured they’d try to get something out of it. Most double sided ones are pretty tough so I’ve wondered in the past if they double sided the ones they displayed for sale, but actually sold from another pile. Most you find are generally in good shape too. Who knows.