Olympic Games, 1936

Large Antique Staunton Style Chess Figures. A large Staunton style chess set with Ebonised and Boxwood weighted chess pieces. The pieces with wide bases for added stability, underside of each chess piece being covered with felt allowing the pieces to slide more easily across the chess board. The chess set comprises of thirty-two pieces, four Knights featuring the head and neck of a horse. Two kings, being the tallest pieces at 11½ cm high, both with a crown topped with a cross whilst the two Queens feature a coronet topped with a tiny ball (10 cm high). The four Rooks are towers (castles) with a crenelation top and the four Bishops with mitres. The sixteen Pawns are the smallest pieces at 5½ cm high and are topped by a plain ball. All the pieces with a collar except the rooks and knights, with a single white Rook with a red crown painted onto the top. The antique mahogany box...

Antique Scared Head Bulger Style Driver. An elegant scared head persimmon wood driver by Schlottman. This great looking club has a polished club head, lead weight to the rear and the...

Vintage Snaffles Hunting Print, Merry England. A hand coloured Snaffles photolithograph entitled 'Merry England' with secondary caption "and worth a guinea a minute". The main image ...

Vintage Leather Netball Ball. A beautifully aged, hand-stitched, traditional size 5 leather netball ball, constructed from 12 brown leather panels. The ball has extra leather strips ...

Original vintage sport Mascot Vučko. it is the Olympic mascot of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Nice addition to any collection. The metal figure wobbles a bit, this is probab...

Vintage Italy-USA Pin from the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. Painted metal. Very good condition.

Striking original large posters printed for promoting tourism to Mexico´s 68 Olympic Games. Each poster is dedicated to a specific Mexican craft or tradition, such as "Fireworks", "Piñatas", "Ceramic doves", Textiles and flowers. The poster illustrations were commissioned to different artists, with very varied styles. The first version printed (before the graphic identity program was completed) had simply the word "MEXICO" with a Roman font, the later version portrays at the top or bottom of each -as a unifying element- the games´ logo that integrated very successfully "Mexico 68...

Original vintage German sport Mascot for the Winter Olympic Games 1976 held in Innsbruck, Austria, "Schneemandl" the Snowman mascot as a piggy bank. Nice addition to any collection. ...