November Pick-up thread

[Michael B]

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.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Michael B

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.

Great find, Michael! A real needle in a haystack type of pickup...

[mr2686]

Congrats Michael. That's one heck of a find. It's amazing what pops up when doing non-traditional searches or even misspelled searches.

[mr2686]

Picked up these for my 1969 Cubs and 1955 Dodger memorabilia room displays.

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Congrats Michael. That's one heck of a find. It's amazing what pops up when doing non-traditional searches or even misspelled searches.

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Great find, Michael! A real needle in a haystack type of pickup...

Thank you both. I look for photos and autographs in all Olympic sports. That increases the number of words I can use for random searches. The results when I use certain words can be amusing. When I search 'fencing' in photos I get hundreds of results where most of the photos are people standing against a fence or a house with a picket fence. All equestrians and most shooting competitors prior to WWII were military. Additionally, many Olympians in the well known sports went to college. This helps when searching in the military and paper categories under collectibles.