344 A signed photograph of Fanny Blankers-Koen,


portraying the legendary Dutch athlete on the way to victory in the 80m hurdles, the signature in blue pen written along the line of a hurdle in the shot, a period 6 by 8in. press photograph, pasted caption to reverse


340 A 1948 London Olympic Games ladies silk head scarf,


a fine quality example by the British textile designer Arnold Lever, published by Weyvale Fabric Printworks, Surrey, extensively printed with the results of all the Olympic events over Olympic Rings on a white ground, 91.5cm., 36in. square £200 - 250


341 A ladies silk headscarf for the London 1948 Olympic Games, the design featuring various sports, London and Athens and a repeated border of Olympic Rings an inscribed 1948, yellow inner ground, blue margins, 61cm., 24in. square £80 - 120


343 A 1948 London Olympic Games ladies headscarf, designed by Arnold Lever and published by Weyvale, Surrey, the striking mustard yellow ground printed with extensive details of the results of all the Olympic events in 1948, including two amendments that made to official records, 91.5cm., 36in. square £100 - 150


For the first time in Olympic history the star of the track and field was a woman. Fanny Blankers-Koen, known as ‘The Flying Housewife’, was the most successful competitor at the 1948 London Olympic Games winning four gold medals all on the track in the 100m, 200m, 80m hurdles and 4x100m relay. £150 - 200


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345 An autograph album containing a good selection of signatures of participants in the London 1948 Olympic Games, nations represented where stated by the signatory including Great Britain, France, Holland, Korea, India, Pakistan, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Sweden, Bermuda, China, Australia, USA, Mexico, Belgium, Austria, Iran, Greece, Egypt, Philippines, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Portugal, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa, Finland, Denmark, Chile, famous personalities including Fanny Blankers-Koen, Rex Harris, McDonald Bailey, Harold Abrahams, Austin Clapp, the album also containing cricket autographs from the same period including team-groups for Middlesex & Lancashire, non-sporting autographs including the actress Ingrid Bergman; together with a small quantity of loose, cut-out autographs, mostly cricketers including the 1948 Australians £700 - 1,000


342 A 1948 London Olympic Games silk ladies head scarf, by Jacqmar, with a striking design of an ancient Greek horseman holding aloft a torch from which flames swirl illuminating sporting motifs, a classical archway is inscribed OLYMPIC GAMES, LONDON 1948, approx. size 84cm., 33in. square


£100 - 150 345 105


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