.750 gold & enamel football medal from the Ottorino Barassi Collection, seemingly produced for the

.750 gold & enamel football medal from the Ottorino Barassi Collection, seemingly produced for the 1953 Mitropa Cup, but the tournament never took place, the obverse with enamel flags of the competing nations of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, the reverse inscribed LA COUPE INTERNATIONALE, 1953, diameter 26mm., weight 11gr. Provenance: By family descent. The following lots 428 to 460 were awarded to Italian Sports Official Ottorino Barassi. For Biographical information regarding Ottorino Barassi see lot 428.