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Originally Posted by Michael B
I was fortunate enough to get the Thorpe pc in Gotenburg, Sweden at the World Olympic Collectors Fair in 2016. The dealer had a table full of postcards from the set including multiples of Thorpe. I paid about $350 for it. I got the pentathlon one for about $2 a few years ago when I was offered the opportunity to purchase items from a deceased Olympic collectors estate. You may not know this, but there are three other Americans on that card - silver medalist Jim Donahue, Austin Menaul and future IOC president Avery Brundage. It is #99 in the set.
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WOW — some fantastic deals there! I’d be happy to give you 100x your investment on the 1500m:-)
Old Avery sure had it out for Jim over the next 40 years. That George S. Patton was also a competitor in the pentathlon is mind-blowing, with Jim also playing against Eisenhower soon thereafter.
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