Those lucky spectators who streamed into the Olympic Park for Friday's
opening ceremony were wise to keep their ticket stubs and any other
ephemera related to the occasion, if only for their
great-grandchildren's sake.
On collecting Olympics ephemera, care of the
Vancouver Sun...
"But in 100 years' time it may well be that just a scarf from an
Olympic 'meeter and greeter' in the park might be valuable, because
there's only one left."
To prove his point, a cotton swimsuit and
cap worn by British backstroke swimmer Eric Seward at the 1908 Games
sold for $5,123 at a Bonhams auction on Wednesday, despite the swimmer
being eliminated in the heats.
A score keeper's badge, complete
with box, from the same Games sold for $2,562. Only 60,000 people will
attend the opening ceremony, after more than a million had sought
tickets. That already puts a rarity value on the item.
Even rarer
will be the tickets for the most expensive elite seats that cost $3,172
or the cheapest offered at $32. Some eagleeyed philatelists have already
spotted that the envelopes the tickets were sent in carried a special
printed label declaring Postage Paid GB HQ2012 - sent from Games
headquarters.
Keeping the used tickets and envelope together for posterity might one day make all the difference.
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