Scarce official 1968 Mexico Olympics 'type 2' torch, comprised of white cast metal and a black leather handle, measuring 17.5″ in length and 4.25″ at its widest point. The white cast metal body is grooved and the top features "Mexico 68" twice around the rim. Scattered marks and dings to body, and some marks and slight seam separation to the leather handle. The torch relay recreated the route taken by Christopher Columbus to the New World, beginning on August 23, 1968, in Olympia, Greece. It notably traveled through Columbus's birthplace in Genoa, where he set sail from Palos in Spain, and the first land he reached in San Salvador. In all, there were 2,778 torchbearers on the 13,546 km route. Only the third ‘type 2’ torch that we have offered.
