Collectible lapel pins from US Figure Skating Championships held in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s Lapel pins have been around for more than a hundred years—showing up in sports, politics, military, business, religion, education, and more—and some say the origins of pins can be traced to the first modern Olympic Games held in 1896 in… Continue reading US Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Early Years.
Category: 1950s
1958 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Bratislava Loop.
Profile: Lapel Pins from the 1958 European Championships, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia "Behind the Iron Curtain," where one dared never to go, was Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, site of the 1958 European Figure Skating Championships and where a large contingent of the continent's best figure skaters joined for strong competition in late January and early February. Like many other… Continue reading 1958 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Bratislava Loop.
1956 World Figure Skating Pins and Medal: Way Down in the Valley.
The winter sports resort hosted the world's best figure skaters—and issued some high-quality pins to mark the event In a valley in the Bavarian Alps not far from the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain peak, lies the resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It's a city with a history steeped in winter sports and with an Olympic heritage to… Continue reading 1956 World Figure Skating Pins and Medal: Way Down in the Valley.
Into the Record Books. 1958.
When the 1958 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in late March of that year, weather history shows that the temperatures were in the 30°F to 35°F range. Although that’s likely nowhere near a record temperature of any kind for Minneapolis, the 1958 Championships still entered the record books as the first national championship to be commemorated with a collectible lapel pin. And a handsome and well-made figure skating pin it is.
Dangling Skate Blade. 1954.
If the World Figure Skating Championships never again return to Norway, the land of the vetter—which might be the case, after a nearly 70-year absence and counting—then the figure skating pin made to commemorate the 1954 event marks the occasion well.