A group of four autograph albums with signatures collected at the Los Angeles 1932 Olympic Games, signatures collected by the seller's grandmother, th

A group of four autograph albums with signatures collected at the Los Angeles 1932 Olympic Games, signatures collected by the seller's grandmother, the albums embellished with news clipping, national flags etc., over 480 individual autographs, this being more than a third of the participating Olympians, research carried out by the seller has identified Los Angeles competitors' signatures to be those of the winners of 43 gold medals, 40 silver medals and 22 bronze medals from Olympic Games between Antwerp 1920 and Berlin 1936, in field hockey, fencing, swimming, gymnastics, boxing, cycling, athletics, rowing & diving, multi-medal winning Olympians including Eddie Tolan, Philippe Cattiau, Romano Neri, Annette Rogers, Sven Theofelt, Georges Buchard, Dorothy Poynton, Josephine McKim, William Garrett Gilmore, Gioachino Guargana and Ralph Metcalfe, also the signature of the Japanese swimmer Kusou Kitamura who won a gold medal in men's swimming aged 14