Ferguson Bakery Premium (Jumbo) Pennants

Duluth Eskimo · #1 01-30-2013, 12:14 AM

These are incredible. It's funny how you can catalog close to the entire population of such a rare group just from this board. Very nice gentleman.

lefty147 · #2 01-30-2013, 10:29 AM

Thanks for posted the Cobb Adam. Mike

Leon · #3 01-30-2013, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

These are incredible. It's funny how you can catalog close to the entire population of such a rare group just from this board. Very nice gentleman.

Of course I am biased but this board is freaking unbelievable sometimes. Absolutely unbelievable. Thanks for posting these pennants guys!!

And here is a blotter card I hope to acquire one day....I think one of our board members (in this thread?) owns it...

matty39 · #4 01-30-2013, 08:15 PM

I'm guilty Leon. There they are all together , the blotter, the seven premiums and a full set of BF2s. I have posted this picture before but I love to show them off.

HRBAKER · #5 01-30-2013, 08:37 PM

STUNNING!
WOW!
Very nice, I'd spend a lot of time in there!

Nashvol · #6 01-30-2013, 08:43 PM

Awesome display!

yanksfan09 · #7 01-30-2013, 08:57 PM

Great Room there, I too am looking for one of those ad cards.

perezfan · #8 01-30-2013, 10:36 PM

Mouth-watering does not even begin to describe that room!

I love the symmetry of all the geometric shapes... beautifully rendered. Not to mention the stunning content within all those 100 year old rectangle, diamond and triangle shapes!

spec · #9 01-31-2013, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Leon

Of course I am biased but this board is freaking unbelievable sometimes. Absolutely unbelievable. Thanks for posting these pennants guys!!

And here is a blotter card I hope to acquire one day....I think one of our board members (in this thread?) owns it...

Leon,
Thanks for posting the Ferguson Bakery advertising blotter. It illustrates a conundrum that has long plagued this longtime collector of the D381 set. To wit: The pennants on the pillow top as well as the large premium pennant of Evers do not match the BF2s commonly labeled Ferguson issues nor the large pennants displayed in this thread. The format is similar, but the design is different and the photos are all portraits rather than the full action shots adorning BF2s and oversize pennants. In fact, the photos on this blotter (and the actual pillow tops) match those used in the D381 sets produced by Ferguson (and the Fleischmann Bakery of NYC), rather than the BF2 images, which emanate from the M101-4 and 5 sets we now know were a product of the Mendelsohn Co. of Chicago.
It seems unlikely Ferguson would have purchased Mendelsohn photos for this promotion when it already had the Underwood & Underwood pictures it used in D381. In addition, BF2s are not found predominantly in the Boston area as one might expect if issued by a Boston bakery. In fact, they turn up throughout the country, which seems strange since Ferguson did not distribute nationally (I believe Ferguson was purchased around this time by the Ward Co. of NY, which did have a larger footprint, however). Of course, someone may have found a direct connection between Ferguson and the BF2s and large pennants, but this advertising blotter is not the missing link.
Bob Richardson, who also is in the market for a Ferguson blotter, though I do have a similar version advertising the Fleischmann set.

Bugsy · #10 01-31-2013, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by spec

The pennants on the pillow top as well as the large premium pennant of Evers do not match the BF2s commonly labeled Ferguson issues.

Actually, the Evers pennant on the blotter is a pennant from the pillow top. The photos on the large pennants are action photos and are the same that were used on the regular BF2s. Hope this helps a little.

Chris

Leon · #11 01-31-2013, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugsy

Actually, the Evers pennant on the blotter is a pennant from the pillow top. The photos on the large pennants are action photos and are the same that were used on the regular BF2s. Hope this helps a little.

Chris

All of this and we still don't have definitive proof that the BF2s are actually "Ferguson" (that I am aware of). Thanks for posting, everyone. This is what our community is best for

Spec- funny story- when I was bidding on the Pillow Top I had to call Legendary Auctions, to correct them, as they had it listed as BF2 pennants on it. I never quite got them to put up all of the correct info. But in the end I am not sure it changed the bidding. I was very happy to get it as my winning bid was the last one I was doing and I knew I probably wouldn't have a chance at another.

NiceDocter · #12 03-26-2023, 06:29 AM

Hmmmm I see the Cobb is a purple. Mine is pink.... had it for over 40 years. Picture is the same. So does that make 2 known?

Hankphenom · #13 03-26-2023, 09:25 AM

I remember that Leland's had a nice version of the pillowtop for sale at a National some 15 years ago for close to 5K, and no doubt would have knocked a little off for a serious buyer. I thought about it, and now, of course...

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