Olympic Hockey Pins: 2010 Participating Nations Goaltender Mask Set

Friday, April 22, 2011

2010 Participating Nations Goaltender Mask Set

Beginning in 1988, there has routinely been a participating nations Olympic hockey pin set for each Winter Olympic Games (the only exceptions being 2002 and 2006). Of all the participating nations sets, this goaltender mask set from the 2010 Winter Olympic Games is, in my opinion, the nicest. The pins are cloisonnes with clutch and post fasteners. Each pin bears the Olympic rings, the Vancouver Inukshuk symbol, the "Vancouver 2010" text, and each pin measures 32mm wide by 32mm tall. On the back side of each pin appears the following text:

In regard to the Canadian and United States pins, in addition to those produced for the set above, there were identical pins produced for sale in the United States upon which the text on the backside of the pin varies slightly (also shown in the photo below):

Thus, counting the duplicate Canadian and United States pins, there are a total of fifteen of these participating nations hockey pins for the 2010 Olympic Games.

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$$ Olympic Pin Values $$

With nearly every post I try to give an idea of the value of the Olympic pin(s) that are highlighted in the post. I have been a collector for many years, and during that time I have tracked the sale of hundreds of Olympic hockey pins. The values that I post on this blog are based on this research and also, most certainly, are affected by my own subjective feelings about the pin(s), so take them with a grain of salt. Of course, the true value of a pin is what a buyer is willing to pay and what a seller accepts for the item at any given time.