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Lot 29

A Collection of Olympic and Athletic Ephemera

25 July 2012, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Collection of Olympic and Athletic Ephemera

Including 1900 St Louis Olympic stadium ticket, 3 tickets to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic games, 2 x 1936 Olympic badges, 1912 Stockholm Olympics hardback picture book relating to British competitors much illustration, Official London Olympic report 1948 edited by Lord Burghley, Norway winter Olympics book, first day cover signed by 4 minute mile athletes Bannister, Chattaway and Brasher.

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Christopher Brasher CBE (1928 – 2003) acted as pacemaker for Roger Bannister when the latter ran the first sub-four-minute mile. He also was one of the founders of the London Marathon.

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