Vintage Japanese Sports Pin-Skier with Japanese Flag

These vintage pins and badges were prize toys. Each pin or badge was attached to a lightweight cardboard sheet in a numbered space. There were tickets at the bottom that the buyer would select to see what number prize they got.

These light weight pins are cast metal with an attached pin. Most are sports related and some have an Olympics connection, showing the Olympic rings, the word Olympic, the Japanese and/or American flags and the sport.

Japan was allowed back in the Olymics in 1951 so it is possible some of these pins were produced at that time. They reference summer and winter sports so most likely they were produced for Japanese children to collect...they are not official Olympic pins.

This particular pin shows a skier with a large Japanese flag. It was on a prize sheet with many of the Olympics related pins and badges.