Description:
Hunter, Edgar Hayes "Ted" Jr. (1914-1995) 1936 Olympics, Alpine Skiing.
Including Hunter's Olympic identification, with photograph; registration card; official certificate of participation; notarized statement of membership from the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association; an original copy of the March 14, 1936 race day start list; four period Olympic brochures in German and/or English; a copy of the rules in English; Hunter's F.I.S. medal from Innsbruck, 1936; the Charles Holmes Pettee medal awarded to Hunter in 1952, in the bottom half of the original leather case; an embroidered patch from the Ford Sayre Memorial ski race, Hanover, New Hampshire; nine reels of 8mm films of Hunter ski racing at the 1936 Olympics, and at other events in Sun Valley, Chile, on Mount Rainier, and elsewhere; and approximately eighteen issues of Olympia Zeitung, some duplicates; and a handful of newspaper clippings related to Hunter.
Estimate $1,700-1,900
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