723 1956 MELBOURNE OLYMPIC GAMES: The official Olympic Delegation blazer made by David Lack Pty Ltd for the Chairman of the Olympic Organizing Committee, Mr Arthur W. Coles. With Coles’ name in pen on the ownership panel in the inside pocket, and numbered "1339". The first "Delegation" blazer we have offered; extremely rare. Sir Arthur William "A.W." Coles [1892 – 1982] was a prominent businessman and philanthropist, a son of Victorian shopkeeper George W. Coles (who had died in 1932). With his brothers, A. W. Coles founded Coles Variety Stores in the 1920s, which was to become the Coles Group, one of the two largest supermarket chains in Australia. He served as Lord Mayor of Melbourne from 1938 to 1940. In 1940 he was elected to the federal parliament as an Independent from Henty. In 1946 Coles was appointed chair of the Australian National Airways Commission, which founded Trans Australia Airlines (later known as Australian Airlines, which became the domestic arm of Qantas). In 1944, Coles retired from business and devoted himself to public works, becoming the chair of both the Commonwealth Rationing Commission and the War Damage Commission. He was appointed chair of the Melbourne Olympic Games Committee in 1952, and a member of the CSIRO Advisory Council in 1956. He was knighted in 1960 and retired in 1965. $1,500–2,500 724 1964Tokyo Olympics Official torch, used in the torch relay. Manufactured by Nippon Light Metal Co., the bowl is engraved “XVII Olympiad Tokyo 1964” with a set of Olympic rings, and the lower portion of the cylinder bears the Tokyo Games logo and reads “Showa Kaseihin Co., Ltd., 3–1964. ” The Olympic torch was carried for 51 days by 870 runners for a total of 26,065 kilometers. Designed on the principle of the coal-mine safety lamp, the Tokyo Olympic torch was filled with priming powder and fumigant, a two-component ignition material that needed to be wind and rain resistant, and which could both easily ignite and extinguish. Its effect was similar to that of a flare. Although a typhoon and various aeroplane issues caused a one-day delay late in the schedule, the triumphant final relay by Yoshinori Sakai through Tokyo’s National Olympic Stadium on October 10, 1964, served as a defining moment for a still healing post-war Japan. This torch beautifully represents the moment the fifth ring of the Olympiad touched down on Asian soil. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. Our 243 competitors, 203 men and 40 women, took part in 133 events in 19 sports and ranked 8th overall in the final medal tally with 6 Gold, 2 Silver & 10 Bronze. At the Tokyo Games, Dawn Fraser became the first of only three swimmers in Olympic history (Krisztina Egerszegi of Hungary and Michael Phelps of the United States being the two others) to have won individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics (100 metres freestyle – 1956, 1960, 1964). $5,000–7,500 725 1994 Winter Games Official Torch scaled replica: The burner features the inscription The XVII OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES LILLEHAMMER 1994 and the Games emblem. The sports pictograms appear on the part in copper, while the upper part in aluminium was the recipient for the pyrotechnic system. The torch consists of a long wooden handle and a metal blade. Fine condition. Australia was represented at the 1994 Winter Olympics by a team of 25 athletes, competing in 9 different sports. Kirstie Marshall was the flag bearer. The only medal won, a bronze, was awarded to the Men’s short track skating team for the 5000 m Relay. $200–300 ❖ 726 2004 Athens Olympics: Official Torch, magnesium and olive wood, 66 cm tall, inspired by the olive tree’s leaf, used in torch relay. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era. The Australian Olympic Committee sent a total of 470 athletes (268 men and 202 women) to the Games to compete in 29 sports. Australia ranked 4th in the medal tally, achieving 17 Gold, 16 Silver & 17 Bronze. $1,000–1,500 END OF SALE 724 726 111