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An autographed manuscript letter from


the three times silver medal winning British fencer Edgar Isaac Seligman to the six times gold medal winning Italian fencer Nedo Nadi, dated 29th June 1931 on 4 Edwardes Square Studios, London, W8, headed paper, two sides, written in French as a mutual language in which they could communicate


Seligman won silver medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 & 1912 Olympic Games of London and Stockholm. For information on Nadi see lot 135. The letter represents a poignant communication between two world class fencers of the era.


By profession Edgar Isaac Seligman was a talented artist.


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£360 - 420 96


An autographed manuscript letter from the Italian fencer Giuseppe Mangiarotti, in black ink on squared paper


Mangiarotti narrowly missed out on a medal at the 1908 London Olympic Games, being a member of the Italian Epee team who lost their semi-final against Belgium and were ranked fourth.


£160 - 200


97 An official poster for the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games,


signed in the plate by the artist Olle Hjortzberg and dated 1911, a lithograph in 7 colours, produced in 16 different languages this example being in Dutch, published in Stockholm by A Bortzells Tr.A.B., the image 104 by 74cm., 41 by 29in., mounted, framed & glazed, minor paper repairs


1912 was the first Olympic Games adopted an official poster, a tradition that endures to the present day. Several sketches were put forward and the Swedish Olympic Committee chose the design by Olle Hjortzberg (1872-1959), a Professor and Director of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.


The design represents the March of the Nations. The poster was not distributed in some countries who deemed the design to be too “daring”, with the central athlete’s modesty barely preserved by the flailing of his flag.


The Dutch language version of the poster had a print run of 2,550. £2,500 - 3,500


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