Memorabilia relating to the British figure skater Mollie Phillips at the Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympic Games, comprising her rare identity card; guest card for a reception held on 7th February by Lake Placid Athletic Club where games were held; guest card for Olympic Games club; six original photographs from the Games including one showing Phillips carrying the Great Britain flag with other flag bearers; lot contains various signatures (9) The 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games were held between 4th and 13th February. The Great Britain team comprising just four competitors, all skaters. Mollie Doreen Phillips (1907-1994) was born in London and started figure skating in the 1920s, achieving success with Rodney Murdoch in the pairs before switching to singles. For the 1932 Olympics, she was selected for the four-strong all-women Great Britain team, along with 13-year-old Cecilia Colledge and Megan Taylor and Joan Dix, both aged 11. Phillips became the first woman to carry a national flag at an Olympic Games and finished ninth in the women's figure skating singles and 11th in the same event at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The first woman to be elected to the National Ice Skating Association, she then became a high-profile figure skating judge and the first woman to judge at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, officiating in a career total of four Winter Games and judging around 50 World and European Championships in her long and active life. She was also a keen dairy cattle breeder in Carmarthenshire.
£400 - £600
Memorabilia relating to the British figure skater Mollie Phillips at the Lake Placid 1932 Winter Olympic Games, comprising her rare identity card; guest card for a reception held on 7th February by Lake Placid Athletic Club where games were held; guest card for Olympic Games club; six original photographs from the Games including one showing Phillips carrying the Great Britain flag with other flag bearers; lot contains various signatures (9) The 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games were held between 4th and 13th February. The Great Britain team comprising just four competitors, all skaters. Mollie Doreen Phillips (1907-1994) was born in London and started figure skating in the 1920s, achieving success with Rodney Murdoch in the pairs before switching to singles. For the 1932 Olympics, she was selected for the four-strong all-women Great Britain team, along with 13-year-old Cecilia Colledge and Megan Taylor and Joan Dix, both aged 11. Phillips became the first woman to carry a national flag at an Olympic Games and finished ninth in the women's figure skating singles and 11th in the same event at the 1936 Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The first woman to be elected to the National Ice Skating Association, she then became a high-profile figure skating judge and the first woman to judge at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St Moritz, officiating in a career total of four Winter Games and judging around 50 World and European Championships in her long and active life. She was also a keen dairy cattle breeder in Carmarthenshire.