In 1984 the Olympic pin makers began packaging complete collections in serialized, limited edition framed sets. The framed sets shown here are not for sale. They are here to show some of the history of pin collecting at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Click a set to see the individual pins from it that we have for sale.
N - Buick and the Olympic Years Framed Set
Buick and the Olympic Years, Limited Edition 1984, framed set (1985 Pin Collector's Guide, set N, pg 101). Not for sale; shown for history.
About the S1 framed set
From the 1985 Pin Collector's Guide (pg 111): Ooh La La! Inc. was the first company selected as the licensee for cloisonné lapel pins by both the Summer and Winter 1984 Organizing Committees, offering almost 100 different sport pins for retail sale, and it created the concept of packaging complete collections of pins in Serialized Limited Edition Framed Sets. S1, the Los Angeles Series One Collector Set, was a Limited Edition of 30,000 and was sold out by the manufacturer in March 1984. Six of the least popular pins were discontinued for individual sale after one year of distribution, with the remaining stock reserved for the LAOOC and U.S. Federations for the respective sports: Pole Vault, Discus, Hammer, Javelin, Handball and Field Hockey. While these pins were difficult to acquire individually in 1983 and 1984, thousands were produced and are in circulation.
