SPORT IN ART
Poster Series


WRESTLING

poster # 1001

WRESTLING is designed to promote the sport of amateur wrestling worldwide.

The historic image comes from a 16th century book showing several ancient Greek wrestlers
training in the palaestra, the Latin word for wrestling school.
The sixteenth century engraving is printed in metalic silver ink on a black background.

The English word WRESTLING is at the top in blue.
The German word for wrestling is RINGEN and is printed at the bottom in red.
The French LUTTE is at left in green.
The Spanish LUCHA is at right in yellow.

These four text colors are the same colors that are used in the Olympic rings.
The fifth color used in the Olympic rings is black, used here as the background to the poster.
In the lower left corner of the image is the Latin word for wrestling LUCTATORES.

WRESTLING

Please note that the poster uses metallic silver ink for the image which does not reproduce well for computer graphics. The poster image is much sharper!

Copyright © 1997 Harvey Abrams. All rights reserved. This image may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

RETAIL PRICE: $15.00 plus shipping.*


* Shipping:
All posters are shipped rolled in sturdy tubes via US mail.
U SA orders add $ 8.00 for shipping via US mail, Priority rate, insured.
International orders add $12.00 for shipping airmail, insured.
Order up to ten (10) posters per tube -- with no additional shipping fee.

LIMITED EDITION PRICE: $275.00 postpaid.
Order the Special Limited Edition version of this poster --
only 30 signed and numbered prints on acid-free, museum quality paper.

How to Order and Pay:


Prepayment is required on all orders. Orders are non-returnable.

How to Pay
Payments are accepted in US Dollars ($) via:
  • Checks drawn upon a US bank
  • Money Orders
  • CASH via registered mail
  • Direct Bank Transfer (Bank details are faxed upon request)
  • Credit cards - VISA - MASTERCARD & e-payments via MONEYBOOKERS (UK) similar to PAYPAL -- free for your to send payment; less fees for me to receive. Contact me and I will send you my account at MONEYBOOKERS.

    click here to pay via MONEYBOOKERS
International payments via checks & money orders must be drawn upon a US bank in Dollars, and should be computer encoded along the bottom of the check. All bank fees are paid for by the buyer.

Pennsylvania residents & deliveries pay a 6% sales tax.


Discount schedules are available upon request to Wholesalers & Distributors, Retail Stores and the Poster Trade, and Non-profit Organisations & Booster Clubs -- see below.

Orders with payment should be sent to:

Mr. Harvey Abrams
HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS
PO Box 732
State College, PA., USA 16804


DISCOUNT SCHEDULE for
Non-profit Organizations & Booster Clubs

The intention of this discount is to encourage wrestling teams and booster clubs
to use this poster as a fund-raiser.
The poster can be used as an award for "most pins" or "best wrestler of the meet" or other special award.
It can also be used as a "thank you" gift to parents and friends of wrestlers.
Naturally, every wrestler should have one!







# of POSTERS in your order Your Discount % Your Cost Your Profit
10 copies (minimum order) 50% discount $ 7.50 each $ 7.50 each
20 copies 55% $ 6.75 each $ 8.25 each
30 copies 60% $ 6.00 each $ 9.00 each
50 copies 65% $ 5.25 each $ 9.75 each
100 copies 70% $ 4.50 each $ 10.50 each
200+ copies 75% $ 3.75 each $ 11.25 each
Shipping is included in the price to addresses within the USA.
International Shipping is extra and billed at cost.

HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS is the publisher of the SPORT IN ART series.
Click here for details.

Here are some LINKS to the sport of amateur WRESTLING:
I will be adding links regularly. My purpose is to provide the sport of Amateur Wrestling with a directory to improve communications. There is no advertising (other than my own company's posters). This page will be PENNSYLVANIA links. Additional pages will be NATIONAL links and INTERNATIONAL links. Perhaps in our lifetime we will need GALACTIC links, but not today. If a link does not work, or has changed, please email me with the news!

WRESTLING LINKS IN PENNSYLVANIA:

ABOUT ME:
I am a certified Health and Physical Education teacher (Pennsylvania & New York) and an Olympic Games & Sport Historian (BS, MAT, Ph.d/abd). I collect books and posters on the Olympic Games and all sports subjects and developed one of the nation's largest private research collections. The overflow from this collection became my rare book business (HARVEY ABRAMS-BOOKS) in 1979.
My Master's degree thesis was on the History of the United States Olympic Wrestling Team from 1896 to 1920. My Doctoral dissertation is on the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis.
A frustrated kid in an elite high school I was just one of thousands at Central High School in Philadelphia. It was my college experience that defined my athletic career. A manager for the football and gymnastic teams, an outfielder for freshman baseball with no future of playing, I found wrestling -- a sport that did not exist in Philadelphia schools. I started to wrestle in my sophmore year at Penn State University (118 & 126) and wrestled five varsity matches before I graduated. Olympic freestyle became my passion and I tried out for the US Olympic team in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 (125.5 & 136.5).
As part of my academic and historical interests I started to collect wrestling and Olympic books -- then posters and memorabilia in the 1980's.
I started my college career in architecture and left quickly when I found out how much engineering was required in Penn State's five year program. But I never lost my passion in art and through the years and have designed and published four posters as a graphic artist. In addition I have done the layout and design of brochures, catalogs, flyers, newsletters, etc.
As an historian I have published numerous articles in journals and publications such as chapters in books and encyclopedias. Last year I was on CNN International and have been interviewed for many media outlets including the Philadelphia Inquirer, Orlando Sentinal, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Washington Post, NBC Today, and others. As an historical consultant I do research and writing on a fee basis for such clients as the US Olympic Committee, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Whittle Communications and others. As a rare book dealer I do evaluations and appraisals of individual books, posters, medals and memorabilia as well as complete collections. Having lived and taught in Germany for five years I speak German and French (neither fluently) and try to learn a bunch of others (Italian, Latin, Greek, Russian).

In 2001 I was the founder of the International Institute for Sport and Olympic History, a Pennsylvania non-profit educational corporation. We plan to build a Library and Museum for the History of Sport, Physical Education, recreation, Dance, Sport in Art and the Olympic Games. SO -- if you have material to sell or give away - please let me know! Consider donating your material to the IISOH and get a tax deduction -- but never, never throw this stuff away!

WRESTLING PUBLICATIONS:

Amateur Wrestling News
John Hoke, Publisher
Ron Good, editor
PO Box 54679
Oklahoma City, OK 73154
ph: (405) 521-8750
ph: (800) 275 - 8551
fax: (405) 521-8240
email:

andre@amateurwrestlingnews.com

Visit their web site at: Amateur Wrestling News
(ISSN) 0569-1796
Published 12 times per year. Subscriptions: $33.00 one year; $62.00 two years; $90.00 three years. First class postage is an extra $15.00 per year. Format is 8 1/2 x 11 inches, magazine; color and black & white photos, ads.

WRESTLING LINKS
Pennsylvania Sports Beat: The Home for Tom Elling's Pennsylvania Wrestling Website

Olympicbks@aol.com

Harvey Abrams-BOOKS
P.O. Box 732
State College, PA, USA 16804
Tel: (814) 321-4018

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Updated July 18, 2008