Pin features tie-ins to Augsburg, the host city for the annual figure skating event Although a pin that is unusual or different in some way is not necessarily made exceptional because of its peculiarity, those pins usually are interesting just the same. Such is the case with the pin issued for the 1979 World Junior… Continue reading 1979 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pin: It’s a Zirbelnuss.
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1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pin: A Threepeat.
Event featured an updated pin design from the two earlier competitions held in Megève For a third consecutive year, Megève, France, hosted an international figure skating event when the 1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were contested at the city's Palais des Sports, commemorating the threepeat with a well-designed lapel pin. The two prior world… Continue reading 1978 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pin: A Threepeat.
1976 and 1977 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: Repeat Performance.
Pins from the inaugural and second World Junior Championships are lookalikes They're two of a kind but not quite identical. Like peas in a pod or birds of a feather. So it was a repeat performance of sorts when the 1976 and 1977 World Junior Figure Skating Championships pins ended up looking nearly alike, with… Continue reading 1976 and 1977 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: Repeat Performance.
1990 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: What Goes Around Comes Around.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1990 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Colorado Springs, Colorado "What goes around comes around" has never been more appropriate than when it refers to a World Junior Figure Skating Championships held in Colorado Springs, Colorado. At least, never more appropriate within the context of branding an event like a Worlds, World… Continue reading 1990 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: What Goes Around Comes Around.
1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1989 World Junior Championships, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia In the early to late 1980s, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, hosted the World Junior Figure Skating Championships every three years, like clockwork: 1983, 1986, and 1989. So for the third time during the decade, the best junior-level skaters from more than 20 nations gathered in the Olympic… Continue reading 1989 World Junior Figure Skating Championships Pins: A Threepeat With a Repeat.