Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
Highly anticipated and a tradition since the Berlin Games in 1936, the preceding torch relay symbolically signal the relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia Greece to the chosen locale each Olympic Games. We have a torch from the Montreal Games in 1976, the first ever hosted in Canada, with this example all the more desirable as only 1,250 were produced, one of the lowest production numbers since the torch’s inception. At 26” in length, a circular steel body finished in bright red has the Montreal Game’s symbol engraved, with the 6” top section covering the actual torch in solid black. Wear is present from use over both the top and bottom sections, with a few chips to the red finish over the handle. Despite these very minor flaws, the torch survives wonderfully, and would be the centerpiece to any Olympic collection.
Produced for the XXIth Olympic Games by Montreal Industrial Designer Michel Dallaire, its simple lines recall antiquity and the resinous wooden torches in Greece. Fueled by super-activated olive oil (olive oil, nitropropane, and heptane contained in a hydrophollic cotton cartridge) the torches’ fuel was perfected with the assistance of the Department of Chemistry at the L’École Polytechnique de Montréal.
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