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Olympic torch... Yours for a cool £145,000

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Deputy_sherriff | 11:32 Mon 21st May 2012 | ChatterBank
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http://www.ebay.co.uk...29e8af#ht_2046wt_1396
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For info:
Christie's 18th April, 2012, some Olympic torches:

Berlin, 1936 £6,250

London, 1948 £6,250

Mexico, 1968 £2,625

Moscow, 1980 £2,125

Seoul, 1988 £3,500

Barcelona, 1992 £3,500

Atlanta, 1996 £2,750

If you're selling a 2012 version, strike while the torch is hot! That sale was to collectors and dealers worldwide via live internet and phone, plus those who sent bids to be executed by Christie's and those in the the room. That's what the market prices are. It seems unlikely that anyone is seriously bidding the sums mentioned for a 2012 one.

But if you had the silver cup, awarded to the winner of the marathon in the first modern Olympics, in 1896, you got a bit more. It fetched £542,250. It was awarded by the organizers because the marathon was in memory of the heroic Pheidippedes, the original Marathon runner. They wanted one prize to be a reference to ancient Greece.
13:38 Mon 21st May 2012
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£145.000 well how come Ramsdens were offering £10.21p ?
13:51 Mon 21st May 2012
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That one's a bit expensive, there are several more on eBay now, between £30K and £30K. Buy It Now, LOL.
22:49 Sun 27th May 2012
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What would do with it? Clean answers only please.
22:52 Sun 27th May 2012
Avatar Image Ann
//These people were chosen because they've made a contribution to their local community
Wrong. //

How do you have to qualify then Mick to carry a torch?
I thought the same as Deputy Sheriff that they were chosen in this way .........
22:53 Sun 27th May 2012
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They were going to be locals, but it's not worked out that way. People we've never heard of are bringing the torch through Dover. They've just showed Will I Am from the Blackeyed Peas carrying it somewhere in Devon - not even British.
22:54 Sun 27th May 2012
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What WOULD you do with it if you had a torch? For instance where would you display it? Its a huge thing - put it across the mantelpiece? Hang it from the ceiling in the loo? I wouldn't thank you for one - and as for buying one for those obscene amounts .......... they must be mad!
22:56 Sun 27th May 2012
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someone said they were selling theirs because it was too tall to stand on the mantlepiece
22:56 Sun 27th May 2012
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Those ridiculous bids are potesters putting in fake bids, lets see who gets paid, my guess not many.
22:57 Sun 27th May 2012
Avatar Image DTCwordfan
well apparently the offer was a hoax, so there we are.....and am I surprised about that? No.

Are you?
22:58 Sun 27th May 2012
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Look, you can have cake decorations too http://www.ebay.co.uk...J&hash=item43b003f79b
22:58 Sun 27th May 2012

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