Hey, pennant guys

[erikc21]

Originally Posted by thetahat

Yikes. Definitely not vintage.

I must admit, I listed one of these exact pennants as ‘vintage’ a few months ago as I bought it with actual vintage pennants. After your input I changed the description and price. It’s great there is a community that self regulates and helps correct inaccurate postings!

[thetahat]

There were a batch of older repros of defunct teams made around the late 1970s … the construction of the pennant dates them. The Browns and Pilots are always auctioned as vintage and I’m pretty sure the book includes them. Senators, Boston Braves, Phila A’s … in fact I think the seller of the Colts is selling all of these as vintage. And I think Mark said it before, this could be a Xmas gift from wife to husband, neither of whom may ever know …

Of course it’s understandable how most people might not know … I have reached out to other sellers before, most appreciate it but some take offense and insist they are authentic.

[thetahat]

These pennants also fit the “sliding runner” style pennant, almost definitely the same company. This hopefully gives Mark the opportunity to repost his sweet Brooklyn Dodgers pennant …

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by thetahat

There were a batch of older repros of defunct teams made around the late 1970s … the construction of the pennant dates them. The Browns and Pilots are always auctioned as vintage and I’m pretty sure the book includes them. Senators, Boston Braves, Phila A’s … in fact I think the seller of the Colts is selling all of these as vintage. And I think Mark said it before, this could be a Xmas gift from wife to husband, neither of whom may ever know …

Of course it’s understandable how most people might not know … I have reached out to other sellers before, most appreciate it but some take offense and insist they are authentic.

Once you've seen enough, these stand out like a sore thumb. I think half of the sellers know but still pedal them as vintage, while the other half simply don't sell enough to know the difference.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Once you've seen enough, these stand out like a sore thumb. I think half of the sellers know but still pedal them as vintage, while the other half simply don't sell enough to know the difference.

There is a 1958 Corpus Christi Hooks pennant on ebay, right now. The seller calls it both a SGA and vintage. I guess it’s a vintage, not old, SGA.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Butch,
Glad one of them worked. You’ll have to post the results.