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MELBOURNE OLYMPICS 1956, TORCH, aluminium, the head cast with fretted Olympic ring motif and legend 'XVI Olympiad 1956: Olympia - Melbourne', 16 in. (41cm) high, without fitted cartridge but retaining scorching, converted to take an electric light bulb, with associated photocopied newspaper articles
This was the last torch to carry Australia's 1956 Olympic flame. Relays of runners carried the torch from Smithton to Mt.Olympus, in the western highlands of Western Tasmania. On Sunday 14 December a crowd of 4000 people saw Shirley Strickland extinguish Australia's last flame with this torch, to the strains of 'Waltzing Matilda'
This was the last torch to carry Australia's 1956 Olympic flame. Relays of runners carried the torch from Smithton to Mt.Olympus, in the western highlands of Western Tasmania. On Sunday 14 December a crowd of 4000 people saw Shirley Strickland extinguish Australia's last flame with this torch, to the strains of 'Waltzing Matilda'
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