Jenner torch from Lake Tahoe Olympic run auctioned for $24000

It had a presale estimate of $50,000.

Jenner carried the torch on the final leg of a torch run through Lake Tahoe in Nevada in 1984, which must be pretty bloody significant if someone thought that $24k was an appropriate amount of money to spend on it. Heritage director Chris Ivy said: “The torch serves as a wonderful symbol that masculinity and femininity are not mutually exclusive”. “The decathlon has lengthy been thought-about the last word athletic proving floor. Jenner has played both gender roles masterfully”.

Higher recognized to a youthful era because the patriarch on TV’s “Maintaining With the Kardashians”, Jenner introduced earlier this yr that he was transitioning to turn out to be a lady.

The auction featured a variety of collectable sports memorabilia items, including a New York Yankees game jersey worn by Mickey Mantle in 1966 that sold for $322,650 and the shoes worn by Muhammad Ali in the 1975 “Thrilla in Manila” bout against Joe Frazier. The 24-inch torch is estimated to go for $20,000 or more.

The seller of the pre-Civil War baseball card was Florence Sasso, of Great Barrington, Massachusetts. “We had my grandfather’s bed room set, which had secret drawers, and she or he stored it there”.

The card is a photograph mounted on a 2½-inch-by-4-inch cardboard, probably taken in a Brooklyn photo studio.

“They secured Bruce Jenner, at the time, and did a big promotion to raise money for their local charities to the name Caesars Palace out there”, Ivy said.

This June 30, 2015 photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows the front of a circa 1860 Brooklyn Atlantics baseball card. The card was passed down to her from her mother, who inherited it from other relatives.

“The Brooklyn Atlantics was the dynasty group of the 1860s. It’s the infancy of baseball”, Shanus said.