Autograph book covering the 1948 Olympic Games in London, signed by in ink on both sides of the pages by over 220 athletics and officials, including
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Autograph book covering the 1948 Olympic Games in London, signed by in ink on both sides of the pages by over 220 athletics and officials, including a good selection of track and field, swimming, diving, water polo. Noted Shirley Strickland 1948-56 (three gold, one silver and three bronze medals), Betty McKinnon (silver 4 x 100 metres relay), Aldo Ghira plus other team members (gold in water polo), Peter Elliot, Edna Child and a rare signature of Austin Clapp USA, who was at the games as an official water polo, (he won a gold medal in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games swimming 4 x 200 metres relay and bronze in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games in water polo, with many European competitors, album bears wear with some pages attached with tape