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ILMARI SYSIMETSA XIIth OLYMPIC GAMES / HELSINKI FINLAND. 1940. 38 3/4 x 25 inches. (99 x 64 cm.) Condition B+: tears at edges and through botton margin into text; diagonal fold in upper right corner, and tape affixed to two corners. Paper. The image features a green statue of the four-time Finnish gold medalist in long-distance running, Paavo Nurmi, over a blue and gray globe with Finland highlighted in orange. As the size of Finland shrank as a result of the Second World War, this poster also features a smaller outline of the country than the original unused 1940 version. Printed in nine different languages, this is the English version. Olympic p. 59.
