AUX VAINQUEURS DU CONCOURS DE LA VIIIME OLYMPIADE CHAMONIX.MONT-BLANC 25 JANVIER-5 FÉVRIER 1924 AUGUSTE MATISSE

Mark description

The mark consists of five bobsledders wearing yellow jackets and hats with brown and beige skin and in a brown, black and grey sled on a white and grey snow-covered track. The bobsledders' left arms are outstretched. A shadow of the bobsledders and their sled is to the right of the bobsledders in grey. Behind the bobsledders is a scene consisting of white snow-covered terrain with pink and grey shading, a golden bridge and fence, a cluster of green trees, white and grey snow-covered mountains and blue sky. In the foreground of the scene and to the left of the bobsledders is a brown bird with golden talons outlined in black grasping two boughs with green leaves and black sticks tied together with a red, white and blue ribbon and a golden laurel wreath outlined in black. The scene has a golden border and sits on a black rectangular midground and a beige background. At the bottom of the black midground is the stylized golden wording "AUX VAINQUEURS DU CONCOURS DE LA VIIIme OLYMPIADE" above the stylized golden wording "CHAMONIX.MONT-BLANC" above the stylized golden wording "25 JANVIER-5 FÉVRIER 1924". The small faint black signature "AUGUSTE MATISSE" appears below the sled design on the lower right hand side of the mark.