Early 1920's Yankees Pennant????

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Posted By: Pat Nester

The ebay item # is 160212186115. If you go to ebay and search completed auctions with the item # you will see the original listing. The "tag" you see in one of the pictures on the back was just a blank piece of paper with a number written on it in pencil. Regardless if it is a baseball pennant or not, I could not pass it up for $40 given its construction, size and visual appearance.

It did not bother me that all of the other pennnats were colleges that this person had. The manufacturers of these pennants produced them for all sorts of teams, events, groups, etc. It would not be unusual to walk into a store during this time period and purchase a baseball, college, football or city pennant all at once.

Below is a scan for an advertisement that is in a 1910 Chicago Cubs baseball program that I own. It pictures a Cubs pennant, a University of Chicago pennant and a Pirates pennant. I have seen an actual example of this particular cubs pennnant before as well as the University of Chicago pennant but have never seen that Pirates pennant in any auctions or collections over the years. You can't see that clear in my scan but the picture in the left hand corner of the Pirates pennant looks like a well known profile image of Honus Wagner.