Olympic Games / Athens 1906 / Marathon - Lot 259

Olympic Games / Athens 1906 / Marathon Photo album on the 1906 Athens Olympic Games containing a photo essay, supplemented by the memories of a marathon runner from the 1970s and 1980s Green half-cloth-bound album, titled in gold lettering on the cover. 11 large-format silver gelatin prints offering an overview of the “make-up” Games for those in St. Louis, as Reichel put it, including 2 beautiful images of the marathon finish, won by the Canadian Sherring (16.5 x 22 cm) A marathon collector from East Germany has added mementos of his passion and his participation in the “Klassischer Lauf Marathon – Athens”: three race bibs (1976, 1979, and 1981, including No. 680 from October 20, 1976), photographs of Athenian landmarks and his races, tickets, newspaper clippings, results lists, and tourist brochures

Estimate:$166.94

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