I remember seeing a news piece about people that collect Olympic pins and they seemed quite "involved".
I'd try googling some of the pins you have and see if you can find them on eBay or something and see what they're worth roughly. You might have $3 worth of pins, or maybe a $1000.
This thread is touching a nerve. My Father recently passed and he has literally thousands of pins that he has collected in the last 80 years. I don't know what I'll do with them, but I'm not just going to throw them away. Here's a pic of some. IMG_1893.jpgIMG_1892.jpg
Generally tons are made of each. A few are limited. Pins generally are purely sentimental to the collector.
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I have pins and competitor swag from most of the world shooting championships , Olympic, Pan Am, Comminwelth Games since 1966 that my father received as part of the National team I even have three spare Commonwealth medals , a gold , silver, and bronze from when he was a venue coordinator
I start d going through all that stuff a few years back and should actually finish so it up one day .
I am going to send it to the rest of the family .
Just so much stuff a guy can collect !
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Anytime I figure I've got this long range thing figured out, I just strap into the sling and irons and remind myself that I don't!
Have a few jars of pins still, along with some framed sets. I worked for an ad agency and designed most of the pins, posters, print for the 88 games.
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