Hey, pennant guys

[perezfan]

Wow.... There are no less than 4 reproduction pennants in the current Heritage Auction. You'd think that a company of Heritage's stature could immediately identify these as modern reproductions. And the bidders appear to be equally clueless. The repros are outperforming the authentic ones!

https://sports.ha.com/c/search-resul...rch-A-K-071316

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Wow.... There are no less than 4 reproduction pennants in the current Heritage Auction. You'd think that a company of Heritage's stature could immediately identify these as modern reproductions. And the bidders appear to be equally clueless. The repros are outperforming the authentic ones!

https://sports.ha.com/c/search-resul...rch-A-K-071316

I’ve heard it argued that to be a reproduction, it must be of the same exact design as an original, and “vintage” can be anything made over 25 years ago. Kinda lame to apply that reasoning to the referenced items, of course. It seems as if they know, as the pennants are said to “celebrate” the existence of the team. Weird way to put it.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by thetahat

I’ve heard it argued that to be a reproduction, it must be of the same exact design as an original, and “vintage” can be anything made over 25 years ago. Kinda lame to apply that reasoning to the referenced items, of course. It seems as if they know, as the pennants are said to “celebrate” the existence of the team. Weird way to put it.

Yes, just another word salad from an “esteemed” auction house.

And that argument is bullish!t if you ask me. Any pennant manufactured after a defunct team is long-gone is a reproduction in my book.

[Vintagedeputy]

I will never understand people.

I was watching a couple of auctions tonight for some really great vintage pennants. With an hour or two left in the auction people just kept bidding them up and bidding them up. What is the thought process behind that? Do you think you’re scaring other people away by bidding it up $20 or $30? The auction finally gets to a point where the price is absolutely unreasonable and there’s still hours left to go in the auction..and yet people keep bumping it up.

Do people enjoy paying more than they could have?

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

I will never understand people.

I was watching a couple of auctions tonight for some really great vintage pennants. With an hour or two left in the auction people just kept bidding them up and bidding them up. What is the thought process behind that? Do you think you’re scaring other people away by bidding it up $20 or $30? The auction finally gets to a point where the price is absolutely unreasonable and there’s still hours left to go in the auction..and yet people keep bumping it up.

Do people enjoy paying more than they could have?

I’ve heard it said that the winner of any auction is actually the loser. By winning an auction, you have just demonstrated you were willing to pay more than anyone else on the planet. Outside of the hidden gems we sometimes find (usually due to poor descriptions, poor pictures or poorly listed), I think there’s some truth to this. We’re all a bunch of losers!

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I’ve heard it said that the winner of any auction is actually the loser. By winning an auction, you have just demonstrated you were willing to pay more than anyone else on the planet. Outside of the hidden gems we sometimes find (usually due to poor descriptions, poor pictures or poorly listed), I think there’s some truth to this. We’re all a bunch of losers!

I realize this is at least partially tongue in cheek but, to the contrary, the winner of the auction is automatically a “winner”. That is, unless he has a specific intention to flip it and he predicts future market value incorrectly. Generally speaking, if a person places a max bid of $X, he personally values the item more than he values having $X. If he wins, he profits. And depending on the second highest bid, he may profit a lot. The difference almost kinda like cash back! Of course I’m not defining profit strictly in terms of cash. I profit every time I go to the store and exchange dollars for goods. Capitalism is awesome!

[Jgwrestlng8]

Mark mentioned some pennants that were trade away in the past and here is the 46 tigers.

I have also added some pickups in the last year. All St. Louis, and the tough one is the terriers from the federal league.

-Jordan

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Wow.... There are no less than 4 reproduction pennants in the current Heritage Auction. You'd think that a company of Heritage's stature could immediately identify these as modern reproductions. And the bidders appear to be equally clueless. The repros are outperforming the authentic ones!

https://sports.ha.com/c/search-resul...rch-A-K-071316

Hilarious that the rarest pennant of the bunch is rocking the lowest bid. Savvy pennant collectors out there.

[ooo-ribay]

Somebody had to buy this damn thing and that somebody was me. I got the seller to come down 40%. It's ugly but pretty unique. Heavily flocked on some weird substrate. 1930's?

[Fballguy]

Bizarre Rob...But Kyle will figure it out.

[Fballguy]

Strong bootleg sale...It's awesome that they put Roman Gabriel on a Cowboys pennant (he appears on Ohio State and Houston Astrodome pennants too) but even more awesome that they left him in his Rams helmet and just added a star to it.

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Somebody had to buy this damn thing and that somebody was me. I got the seller to come down 40%. It's ugly but pretty unique. Heavily flocked on some weird substrate. 1930's?

Same batter graphic.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by thetahat

Same batter graphic.

Looks like Ichiro, slapping a single.