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BurpeeBurpee Posts: 153
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Hey all, I know this is not 3D related but I need some information and I think that the Daz members just might be able to supply it.  Ok, so here goes....

I have a New York Giants pennant that is very old and I can not find this particular design in any images of these pennants by browsing.  I'm wondering about the history of the Giants and whether they became the Dodgers...or the other way around.  The pennant is orange-ish with black or dark brown printing and trim.  It says New York Giants and has a face of a ball player with a really old looking hat on his head like you see in movies about old-time baseball.

Anyone know the history of Giants enough to know how old this pennant might be?  Belonged to my husband's father who recently passed away.  Wish that we'd known about it before he was gone.  I'm sure that he would have loved to share the story of it.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Here's a page that may help a little with their history...

    http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nl/nygiantsb/nygiants.html

  • 3dOutlaw3dOutlaw Posts: 2,481
    edited December 2016

    You could always snap a picture of it on a white background, then use Tinyeye or Google images to see if you can get an image match...?

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,774
    edited December 2016

    New York Giants Baseball Club was never the New York or Brooklyn Dodgers but did move to San Francisco and become the San Francisco Giants in 1958. I find the image of a baseball player's face on a pennant very unusual and would thing that that makes the pennant newer than 1970. You'd like get a very detailed answer with maybe even an estimate if the pennant is worth anything on a baseball memorabilia website, eg I have a baseball Stan Musial autographed for me in 1982 via post even though he was retired before I was even born, bless his heart so whoever winds up getting this memorabilia is typically fans and so want to know the history of the items. Less interesting, but still important to these collectors businesses that ultimately wind up with these items for resale, is I bought a baseball signed by Nolan Ryan after he retired in a baseball shop at Camden Yards that is wrapped in shrink plastic with the 3D holograms and certificate of authenticity. They make having fun such so complicated now! You might also check your father-in-laws filing cabinets & such for ticket stubs to baseball games as he might of bough the pennant at during a visit to a game.

    NY Giants Wiki

    You'll see how their NY Giants Logo is so similar to the NY Mets NY Logo

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  • BurpeeBurpee Posts: 153
    edited December 2016

    Those are great links, thanks!

    I'm pretty sure that this pennant is quite old.  The felt is very soft, like it's old and it needs a washing, which I know better than to wash it.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,774
    edited December 2016
    Burpee said:

    Those are great links, thanks!

    I'm pretty sure that this pennant is quite old.  The felt is very soft, like it's old and it needs a washing, which I know better than to wash it.

    Well it looks very 1950s in the artistic asthetic of the face. Hmmm, I take that back, the cap the fellow is wearing looks pre-1920s.

    It's a quite cool pennant, I've never seen one like it. Pennents used to be made from felt, which is very processed wool so that it's soft. Wool shrinks an extreme amount if you wash it. I have Icelandic Sweaters and I washed one once to see what would happen and it went from being big enough to fit me that something a Barbie doll could wear.

    You may be able to have your pennant dry cleaned although it doesn't look like it would be a tramendous help. It doesn't look too dirty.

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  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384

    "You may be able to have your pennant dry cleaned"

    Do not do anything to it, other than protecting it! (No offense nonesuch).

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,774

    Well I searched for a similar pennant and the closest I could find was a 1936 NY Giants pennant on eBay. The cap I search and that srt of cut was still around in the 1930s but seems to have gone by 1940s.

  • BurpeeBurpee Posts: 153

    Thank you for checking it out for me.  It's such an unusal design that I wanted to know something about it.  I think it needs to be framed and hang by our bar.  I'm not in New York so it's not my team but I think it needs protecting.  It does have pin holes on the top ties so someone had it hanging on a wall at some point in its life.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    It's definitely not a 1950s one...

    It's a great find, in any case.

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