Ferguson Bread BF2 Pennant w/premium # on back

[matty39]

Here are a few more - not mine.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by matty39

Here are a few more - not mine.

Thats it Marty, same stamps on the backs of the BF2 pennants that I have. Hard to see, but there is the much smaller red printing of the three lines I described, to the right of each of those larger number designations.

Don't think I've ever seen a stamp like Scott has on the back of his BF2 pennant before.

Also noticed all the larger numbers on those stamps are printed in the same black ink. Not sure what is up with the one I have where that large number is printed with a light green ink instead.

[FrankWakefield]

I have one, somewhere...

I've only seen the sticker like the one on the back of that Weaver BF2. For that pic of a bunch of other pennants with the "No. xxx", I have no recollection of seeing those. Are you guys sure those are on BF2's??

[BobC]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

I have one, somewhere...

I've only seen the sticker like the one on the back of that Weaver BF2. For that pic of a bunch of other pennants with the "No. xxx", I have no recollection of seeing those. Are you guys sure those are on BF2's??

Yup, and actually found I had a fourth one with the stamp on the back, just like the ones in Matty's image he shared.

Definitely a bit of a head scratcher as to why two different types of back stamps.

[FrankWakefield]

Found the one I have with the sticker...

[FrankWakefield]

In response to BobC's headscratcher observation...


My mind is stuck in old movies...

The King and I, Yul Brynner, "Tis great puzzlement."

With what little info we have, I think Todd's thought of a different supplier of the premiums makes sense, I wonder which one came first (just assuming they weren't simultaneous).

Scott's Weaver and my Wood both have the same SERIAL No. (I wonder why all capital letters), and a different Premium No.

Oh for the time machine... go back in time and spend a few dollars on mail in full sets of those Cracker Jack cards, get good odds and put down a good mid season bet on the Boston Braves winning the 1914 World Series, and stuff like that... eventually I'd go try to figure out this Ferguson Bakery stuff.

[sb1]

Normally these companies offered a broad array of different premioums over the years, I am guessing that the Serial # is the type of item(BF2 Pennant) and the Premium # is for the player???

[BobC]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

In response to BobC's headscratcher observation...


My mind is stuck in old movies...

The King and I, Yul Brynner, "Tis great puzzlement."

With what little info we have, I think Todd's thought of a different supplier of the premiums makes sense, I wonder which one came first (just assuming they weren't simultaneous).

Scott's Weaver and my Wood both have the same SERIAL No. (I wonder why all capital letters), and a different Premium No.

Oh for the time machine... go back in time and spend a few dollars on mail in full sets of those Cracker Jack cards, get good odds and put down a good mid season bet on the Boston Braves winning the 1914 World Series, and stuff like that... eventually I'd go try to figure out this Ferguson Bakery stuff.

Rather than coming from a different supplier, could it be that the differing serial numbers/stamps was done for different distributors? Maybe the same company manufacturing all the pennants then sold them to different distributors, and used the differing stamps, serial numbers, etc. to differentiate the items for the different distributors? It has been determined that these BF2 pennants are now no longer considered as strictly a Ferguson Bakery item, IIRC, and actually may not have had anything to do with Ferguson Bakery as their distributor at all. And the images used are the same as those used on the M101-4 cards, which were I believe produced by a firm out of Chicago. So really hard to say exactly why the differing back stamps on these BF2 pennants. I wish the smaller red printing on the back stamps in the image Matty shared were more visible. As I noted in an earlier post, there is an additional 4-digit code or number on each of those, which seems to be based on the subject shown on the pennant, as demonstrated by my having two Guy Morton BF3 pennants with the same 4-digit number on each. The larger number on those other back stamps are different though, so no idea what those are supposed to represent then, but they clearly seem to not represent the image on the pennant. As noted earlier, a bit of a head scratcher IMO. Interesting topic and discussion though.

[BobC]

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