February Pick-Ups

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by jester

Picked this up. Anyone know the year of this pennant?

Don't know definitely but looks like 1936....any baseball pennant with art deco style graphics is a winner, you don't see a lot of them...congrats nice P/U

http://www.sportsantiques.com/09natstorypg22.htm
It's not an A's piece but the art deco and baseball reminds me of this 1938 booklet at the 09' National in Michael McKee's booth....What was I thinking not to buy this for $75.00....covering the National for a story is overload mind numbing and this proves it LOL...

[matty39]

Jeff, I believe your pennant is a 1936-38 BF3 premium. You will find them listed in the Standard Catalog as type 12 BF3S.

[mjkm90]

That's not a BF3 (IMO)...isn't that a 27" pennant (see the tac head impressions)? It's 1930s in design. Jeff, you have one HELL of a pennant there. I've never seen another.

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by mjkm90

That's not a BF3 (IMO)...isn't that a 27" pennant (see the tac head impressions)? It's 1930s in design. Jeff, you have one HELL of a pennant there. I've never seen another.

It is a BF3 premium. Red Ball issued full-sized pennants for the 16 MLB teams, but not for player pennants.

[Bugsy]

Here is the BF3 mini pennant that would have been given away with the gum.

[mjkm90]

Interesting stuff Chris. I'm not familiar with them. Are they rare?

[matty39]

Red Ball sales co in 1936 put out a set of 16 mini pennants now cataloged as bf3s. Apparently they came with gum because for 15 cents and 25 gum wrappers you could send in and get one of the 16 in a 28 inch premium size.
Below is a counter top diplay of the 16 plus the Red Ball offer. I have also included pictures of 12 of the 16 premium sized pennants. They are quite rare and sell in the one to three hundred dollar range.

[murphusa]

the stuff that is on the last few pages of this thread makes net 54 worth it.
Informative and neat.

[matty39]

I own two of the premiums. They are actually 27-28 inches and with the tassels I guess they called them a 30 inch pennant.

[deebro041]

Received this 1927 Little World Series game ball between the Toledo Mudhens and the Buffalo Bisons. Toledo was managed by Casey Stengel, whom won 5 games to 1.