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PIN TRADING - NOW AND
THEN... Pin trading at our newly opened museum, was a relatively new experience in the United States and was held almost every afternoon from January 1980 until the end of the Los Angeles Olympics for the public that visited the museum. It started in a small way at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics which I attended for ten wonderful days, was more popular at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics and became a big success and great hobby for many people during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with large amounts of pins made by the official LAOOC pin licensee Ooh La La, for whom we helped in the design and were distributors of the Olympic pins and pin sets, which we sold at wholesale to many gift stores throughout California and retailed in the museum gift store and our other hotel gift stores in the Disneyland area and Los Angeles and in San Francisco at the Hotel Mark Hopkins and Holiday Inn Chinatown, where we sold thousands of pins and many other items of the 1984 Olympics from 1980 until after the Olympics were over. After the Olympics, we had a chance to purchase all remaining pins and pin sets from the licensee, which made us the only outlet in the United States, that sold and still sells the original 1984 Los Angeles Olympic pins and pin sets that are left. Since these pins were made in small quantities, compared to the 1996 Atlanta and 2002 Salt Lake City pins which were mass produced, we sincerely believe that the 1984 pins, have the best collector's value of any of the Olympic pins made after 1984 for Olympics in the United States. They are more than 20 years old, were made before the great commercialization of the newer pins and many of the 1984 pins were made of real Cloisonne, a nine step hand made Chinese process that is hardly produced anymore because of the long hours it takes to manufacture. We still sell the pins and pin sets at the original 1984 prices and some are still packed in their original boxes with the Stars in Motion, which is a collectable in itself. Some pin sets were numbered and come with certificates and besides, they are fully guaranteed by us to be authentic. The same is true for the 1984 pins, which are pictured and described in the official 1984 Pin Guide, which is free with any purchase over $ 200.00 or $10.00 without purchase and are important for collecting the l984 pins and pin sets. For information or orders, it is best to send us an email first, since we have two addresses and travel a lot and we will advise you to what address to send your payment. Thank you for visiting our web site. THE COLLECTOR'S PIN ALBUM: I have collected and traded pins since I attended the1936 Winter and Summer Olympics in Germany at age ten and in all these years of collecting, I have paid a lot of money for some of the pins. Whenever I showed my pins to friends, they mostly ended up being touched and handled, which is not good for the pins, nor desirable. Before the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games I designed a Safety Album that holds up to 100 pins and which not only show the pins beautifully, but they also cannot be handled or removed. Is it worth to pay a dollar per pin, to have your valuable pins safe? When paying thirty, forty or more dollars for a pin, I believe it is worth it. We sold a lot of these albums in our museum and in our gift stores for $100.00 each. We still have a relatively small amount left and are selling them for only $ 79.50 including a four pin set of Halley's Comet pins that sold for $ 6.00 each at the Griffith Observatory. The albums are heavy, therefore please add $ 10.00 for shipping by priority mail in the United States, a total of $ 89.50. Shipping to other countries are whatever our shipping cost is. Click on the photos to view them enlarged and see how beautiful and practical these Albums really are. We sell pins and other Olympic memorabilia and have all kind of NOC, Media, Sponsor and other pins from the 1984 to the 2002 Olympics and trade for any Olympic memorabilia and NOC and Media pins we don't have, as well as any other items from the Olympics. Please contact us by email. Email checked daily at: enash327@yahoo.com or
weekly at: museum@olympicsource.org Telephone: Summer: 541-765-2923 Winter 702-346-1776
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