Hey, pennant guys

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Please forgive the intrusion into this awesome thread, but I am in the process of reading through it. I have about a year and a half to go, but I wanted to say what a mind-blowing thread this is! The quality of the vintage pennants, especially the colors and logos, is so incredible! The modern production stuff pales in comparison. I don't know how I have been in the hobby this long without having gone down this road. Frankly, I am a bit jealous. I have seen some really neat framed jobs so far. Do you frame your own? In most cases the frames look roomy enough so that it wouldn't be too hard to do. Please keep posting these beauties. I hope to purchase a few this year.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by vintagebaseballcardguy

Please forgive the intrusion into this awesome thread, but I am in the process of reading through it. I have about a year and a half to go, but I wanted to say what a mind-blowing thread this is! The quality of the vintage pennants, especially the colors and logos, is so incredible! The modern production stuff pales in comparison. I don't know how I have been in the hobby this long without having gone down this road. Frankly, I am a bit jealous. I have seen some really neat framed jobs so far. Do you frame your own? In most cases the frames look roomy enough so that it wouldn't be too hard to do. Please keep posting these beauties. I hope to purchase a few this year.

Glad you like this thread, Robert. I am one of the "pennant guys." Not the most knowledgeable and not with the best collection, but I am pretty well versed in Giants pennants. One thing that fascinates me about pennants is their evolution and, in some cases, the near impossibility of finding certain exmples...examples that SEEM like they shouldn't be impossible. I'll take this oppurtunity to post a few of my "most wanted." In order of pictures posted, I have seen these pennants offered for sale this many times: once, once, a couple of times, once, once (a unique variation of a more common series), never, never.

[perezfan]

LOVE (and wish I had) that Dodgers/Giants pennant from 1958. What a beauty!

I can certainly see why that's rare, but others remain a mystery. As for the White 1962 Giants Champs Pennant with the rivets.... the 1961 Reds version is one of the most plentiful on Ebay. I think there were 7 or 8 nice ones, last time I looked. So did they just make far fewer the following year (in '62?)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-1961...wAAOSwMtxXv2Hl

There are (maybe) one of these Giants versions for every 100 Reds.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by perezfan

LOVE (and wish I had) that Dodgers/Giants pennant from 1958. What a beauty!

I don't understand why it's as rare as it it....there were nearly 30,000 excited people at that game who, presumably, knew they were attending a historic event and who, you would think, would want to pick up a souvenir (assuming the pennant was sold at Seals Stadium).

The grey pennant is not particularly attractive and is a variation of the one pictured below but I've seen it ONCE.