This ticket may look familiar to you all, as 11 days ago I blogged that I had been outbid at an auction for it!
Well, several days after the auction concluded (and after my blog post), I received an e-mail from the seller advising that he had several more of the tickets, from other days of the Games. Would I be interested in purchasing one for the value of my maximum bid? Naturally, I said yes and here we are. I am thoroughly happy. I now believe that I have all of the standard tickets for Stockholm 1912.
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Here they are, the Rio 2016 tickets I have sourced.
The first ticket appears the advance ticket, with the running man displayed as the main picture; the second ticket appears the generic form, with all of the events shown in the main picture, and the details for the athletics event thermally printed on the lower half; and the third ticket appears the 'accreditation required' ticket. I win more than I lose, so I can't really complain, but I was frustrated to miss out on this 1912 Stockholm one-day reserved seat ticket.
The bidding was furious in the last minute of the auction, with new people entering and the price rising by more than $100.00 in the last seconds. Let's hope that another arises in the future. A new ticket to report.
I'm still only halfway to finding all of these Mexico City 1968 tickets though! Two new tickets to add today; both from Rome in 1960.
The annulled ticket is interesting, in my view. The 'annullato' notice is printed, rather than stamped. Why would that be? Four new tickets to add to the site; two entirely new ones for Mexico City 1968 and two replacements for Atlanta 1996 and London 1948, to replace incomplete versions previously shown.
A new ticket received today and two more on the way! I don't want to tempt fate on the next two being lost in the post, so I'll comment on those once received.
I am a member of Olympin, perhaps the World's largest Olympic collectors club.
Today I have made an impassioned plea to fellow collectors to join me in trying to create a database of all Olympic tickets and moving towards the organisation of a community that could achieve AICO membership. My post can be found here: http://olympinclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?style=2&f=10&t=12 I recently received an email from a collector who referred to a special ticket she had for Melbourne in 1956. Here it is, a ticket fit for a queen.
There are only two Games for which I have no tickets whatsoever; Athens 1896 and Antwerp 1920.
The likelihood of finding and affording a ticket from the first Games is unlikely, so it is the gap in my collection presented by the 1920 Olympics that irks me more. If you know of anyone selling either an Antwerp 1920 or Athens 1896 ticket, please let me know. |
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September 2019
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