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Originally Posted by thetahat
My opinion is … different maker. These last two seem better quality than the first. Somebody made defunct team pennants in the mid 1970s, the brown Browns pennant with Brownie, green Phila A’s, white Senators with the Nationals logo … even the Pilots have a repro. I think these Giants fit that mold.
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...yes, someone did: Trench! Although, they were "distributed" through another company d/b/a "APSCO" of Brooklyn, NY. Occasionally these repros, which were actually made in the late 1970s, come up for sale in their original APSCO packaging, shown below, with the distinctive "Pennant Post" lettering at the top of the card header.
By the 1980s an even cheaper version of these was produced by Trench/APSCO. On these second generation repros, you'll note they were 100% screen printed atop a white (and only white) felt substrate, i.e., the blue color of the felt was itself screened on. These can be identified by their white frame surrounding the edges of the long sides of the pennant; and the reverse, which will be 100% white (not blue).