Calgary games torch gets big bucks online
Posted Feb 15, 2013 7:11 am.
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One Calgarian has taken Olympic nostalgia to the bank.
Reid Hunt has scored $30,000 for an original unlit relay torch from the ’88 Calgary games on eBay.
The torch belonged to his late father who worked for Petro Canada.
The memorabilia was purchased by a southern California man who has amassed a collection of 15 Olympic torches so far.
Hunt tells The Calgary Sun it had been sitting around for 25 years and he wanted to see it go to a collector.
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