Profile: Lapel Pins – 1988 European Championships, Prague, Czechoslovakia By 1988, it had been 40 years since a European Figure Skating Championships had taken place in Prague, Czechoslovakia, a city known for the magnificent cathedral spires that define its skyline—and from which it earns the nickname "City of a Hundred Spires." Although the collectible lapel… Continue reading 1988 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: Of Spires and Spirals.
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1966 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Bratislava Loop II.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1966 European Championships, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia European designers of logos and identities for figure skating events in the mid-20th century had a clear fascination with the compulsory figure known as the loop, incorporating some version of it—usually stylized—into many an event brand. And the loop appeared again on the various 1966 European… Continue reading 1966 European Figure Skating Championships Pins: The Bratislava Loop II.
1973 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Linden Leaf Emerges.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1973 World Championships, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia The costume jewelry craze, which hit its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, made its way into the pins issued for the 1973 World Figure Skating Championships, held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Not only were there standard logo pins that marked the event, but an unusual pin… Continue reading 1973 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Linden Leaf Emerges.
1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
Profile: Lapel Pins and Participant Medal from the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships, Prague, Czechoslovakia Following the February 1961 crash of Sabena Airlines Flight #548, which killed the entire U.S. figure skating world team—plus coaches, parents, family members, and dozens of others—and the subsequent cancellation of the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships scheduled for Prague,… Continue reading 1962 World Figure Skating Championships Pins: Prague Redux.
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.