The Breal Cup at Christie's Olympic sale.
Christie’s will offer the cup awarded after the first marathon of the modern Olympic Games at an auction in South Kensington on April 18. Breal’s Silver Cup is estimated at £120,000-160,000. It was won by Spyros Louis at the Athens Olympic Games of 1896 and is being offered for sale by his namesake and grandson.
The cup features at Christie’s sale of Vintage Posters and Olympic Icons, which features items from almost every Olympic Games. There are Olympic torches from 1936 to 1996 estimated from £700 and 26 original advertising posters from the London games of 1908 to the Tokyo games of 1964. Altogether 179 lots are expected to bring in £700,000.
UPDATE: It made £541,250 and broke the record for any item of Olympic memorabilia at auction. It was bought by The Stavros Niarchos Foundation and will be shared with the Greek people by being permanently displayed for public view at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center upon its completion in 2015.