Gazette Drouot - C apencheres
Gazette Drouot - C apencheres
Gazette Drouot - C apencheres
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AUCTION RESULTS THE MAGAZINE<br />
Winter Olympic Games in 1968<br />
2012 will have been an Olympic year in<br />
more ways than one, as even the auction<br />
room took charge of one of the most<br />
famous symbols of the Games: the torches<br />
carrying the mother-flame from the site of<br />
Olympia in Greece. Seven torches totalled the trifling<br />
sum of €266,160, of which a substantial €228,000 was<br />
credited to one of thirty-three examples from the 1968<br />
Grenoble Winter Olympic Games. By comparison, the<br />
very first torch, from the 1936 Berlin Games, garnered<br />
€3,800. Designed by Carl Diem and cast from steel by<br />
Krupp, it was reproduced 3,840 times. Another steel<br />
creation from the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games has<br />
no more than 100 others like it - the result being<br />
€8,800 for one. The 1956 Melbourne Summer Games<br />
witnessed the sacred flame carried by 120 torches<br />
made from an aluminium alloy. One of them was preempted<br />
at €6,000 by the Musée du Sport. S. A.<br />
USEFUL INFO<br />
Where ? Paris - Room V.V.<br />
When ? 11 October<br />
Who ? Vassy-Jalenques auction house<br />
How much ? €266,160<br />
€228,000 Winter<br />
Olympic Games in<br />
Grenoble, 1968,<br />
official torch, coppercoloured<br />
sheet<br />
metal.<br />
N° 19 I GAZETTE DROUOT INTERNATIONAL<br />
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