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Originally Posted by MK
Nice find. Wonder if they had a catalog showing their entire inventory?
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They most certainly
did issue a sales catalogue! See the below ad for W.C. Kern, published in 1903 (1903!).
All of these companies regularly issued catalogues back in those days. Typically, you had to write to the company and request one; then they'd mail you one ... and another the next year, and so on and so forth.... Most were printed in black and white; but some featured color imagery. Most were a dozen or so pages in length; but, some, especially the bigger flag makers and/or sporting goods companies, would issue sales
books totaling a few hundred pages. The prices were always wholesale, with the unit price diminishing on every additional dozen pennants ordered.
Unfortunately, I don't own a W.C. Kern catalogue; nor have I ever seen one. But perhaps one day....
In addition to the below 1903 ad, here's two more from W.C. Kern from 1905, and 1909. Note that none mention anything about professional baseball pennants.