b'83680Group of nine programmes and guides produced at the time of the Melbourne 1956 Olympics, noted Housing Commission Victoria A Village is Built, Railway And Tramway Maps - Supplement To Official Guide - XVIth Olympiad - Melbourne 1956, Football Final and Closing Ceremony - Melbourne Cricket Ground, telephone directories and others. (9 items)Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$150200681Booklet titled United States Olympic Team - 1956 Fact Book - Games of the XVI Olympiad - Melbourne, Australia, [New York, 1955], 96pp + two-pages of Additions to Fact Book .Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$100200682Group of seven publications (newspaper supplements, programmes and guides) produced at the time of the Melbourne 1956 Olympics, including the Sports Illustrated November 1956 Olympic Preview Issue, the Sun News-Pictorial Olympic Souvenir, and others including a proposal for the Olympics to be held in Moscow. (7 items)Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection . $100150683A pair of original Olympic and Australian flags that were flown over the Ballarat Olympic Village in 1956, both 130 x 260cm. (2 items)Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$1,0002,000684Australian flag flown at Ballarat Town Hall during the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games; approx. 87 x 182cm.The official welcome to the athletes took place at the Town Hall, where the Mayor of Ballarat, Councillor Ken Webb addressed the visitors and officials.Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$3005006856886851956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS - PENNANTS: The German Team pennant with text Deutsche Olympiamannschaft - 1956 - XVI Olympische Spiele Melbourne, with original signatures of fourteen athletes; length 33cm.Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$2503506861956 MELBOURNE OLYMPICS - PENNANTS: Czechoslovakian Team pennant with text XVI Olympijske Hry - Melbourne 1956; length 46.5cm, together with Brazilian and Chilean Olympic Committee pennants, the larger 45cm long. (3 items)Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$250350687Collection remainder of books, booklets, and pamphlets, most related to sport or the Olympics, some signed by 1956 Olympic athletes from the Romanian and Czechoslovakian delegations, among others; titles include Sport in Czechoslovakia, Arts In The Rumanian Peoples Republic, Grigorescu - Masters Of Rumanian Painting, and Dr Ferenc Mezos Les Jeux Olympiques Modernes, plus five film reels of unknown content. (28 items)Provenance: The Frederick Hay Christison Collection .$150200688MELBOURNE, 1956 OLYMPICS: Vintage porcelain wall pocket bearing the Olympic rings and torch, emblazoned Australia, 1956,14cm high, 16cm wide. $1002006891956 MELBOURNE: DEMONSTRATION SPORT - BASEBALL: Official team photograph titled United States Services Team, Olympic Games - Melbourne, 1956, mounted on board, 30 x 37cm overall.On the first of December a crowded MCG hosted an 11-5 victory over Australia by an American team drawn from servicemen from the United States Far East Command. Observers noted that the turnout was one of the highest ever recorded for a baseball match to that point. $1002006901956 MELBOURNE: BROCHURES & PROGRAMMES: Orient Line to the Olympic Games Melbourne brochure for passengers featuring the programme, a map of Melbourne and a service directory; a programme and Olympic Records card issued by Hartleys Sporting House of Melbourne; an official programme for the Olympic Follies at the Tivoli Theatre, Melbourne; and one of the scarcest Official programmes WRESTLING - Free Style at the Exhibition Buildings. (4 items). .$150200'