Cabinet photo of Lucien Mérignac. He won a gold medal in Individual Foil Masters at the 1900 Olympics in Paris. This was signed in July, 1894 one month after the meeting in Paris to revive the Olympic Games. The inscription says: 'To Mr. Caublot as a souvenir from one fencer to another' Mérignac died in 1941 in Paris. This is the oldest Olympic signature I have come across and the first before the revival of the games. I found this on ebay while doing non-traditional searches for photos to add to my archives. I got it in the mail yesterday and two European collectors already want it.
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