A large collection of football badges from the Ottorino Barassi Collection
£500 - £700
A large collection of football badges from the Ottorino Barassi Collection, of a good vintage and representing a wide selection of teams and some national football associations, lapel badges and stick pins, mostly in gilt-metal & enamel, subjects including Arsenal, Leeds United, Portsmouth, The Football League, AC Prato, US Arezzo, Sparta Prague, Livorno, Barcelona, Pro Vercelli, Sampdoria, Pro Cittiglio, Dynamo Moscow, AS Bari, Viareggio, Torino, Liga Lucana, a Cypriot badge dated 1934, AC Milan, the Football Associations of Mexico, Hungary, Uruguay, Portugal, Germany, USA, CCCP, Switzerland, France, Argentina, Hong Kong, Brazil, Austria, and many other examples, occasionally non-football subjects, (approx. 149)
The following lots 765 to 781 were awarded to Italian Sports Official Ottorino Barassi