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Lot # 2223: UPDATE
1936 Olympic Sweater

Starting Bid: $200.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "December 2002",
which ran from 12/5/2002 12:00 AM to
12/31/2002 9:00 PM



White sweater is a keepsake from the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin Germany. The Third Reich’s plans for racial supremacy and genocide against the Jews were just beginning to unfold. Jesse Owens was the hero of these Games of the XI Olympiad, claiming four gold medals. Sweater has an American Olympic patch on the chest with a pin which reads “American Olympic Ski Fund Germany 1936”. “Horace Partridge Co. Athletic Goods Boston” tag in collar.This sweater is from a 1920's Olympics rather than 1936 Berlin.

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