Handsome participation medal from the 1932 Lake Placid Games 9044 Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympics Bronze Participation Medal Estimate $8,000+ Scarce participation medal issued for the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. Bronze, 60 mm x 48 mm, 83 gm. The front depicts the winged figure of Fame blowing into a long horn against a wintry landscape, with the Olympic rings above; the reverse, inscribed “III Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1932,” features six shields of winter events, with scenes of curling and dogsledding below. Top edge inscribed by the manufacturer, “Robbins, Co., Attleboro.” A beautifully designed Olympic medal from America’s premiere Winter Games, made all the more desirable by its scarce quantity—only 700 of these seldom-seen medals were struck.
Scarce ‘bobsled’ poster 9045 Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympics Poster Estimate $1,500+ Exceedingly rare official variant poster of the 1932 Winter Olympics, 24.75 x 40.25, featuring a four-man bobsled team as the central artwork, with an additional four event images along the left side depicting ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating, and alpine skiing; blue text in gold upper and lower borders, “III Olympics Winter Games,” with Olympic rings above, and “Lake Placid, New York, February 4–13, 1932.” Stamped in the lower left, “Printed in USA.” Linen-backed to an overall size of 27.5 x 42.75. Rolled and professionally restored to fine condition. As a counterpart to the popular Lake Placid poster showing the silhouette of a ski jumper against a map of the United States, this alternative poster remains a highly desirable and seldom-seen keepsake from America’s inaugural Olympic Winter Games.
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