WHEN the Olympic torch leaves Oxfordshire on Tuesday, it will be exactly 100 years since Oxford University student Arnold Jackson won gold in the 1,500-metre race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

This, and Oxford’s other prestigious Olympic connections, have been immortalised in two of only four official postcards being made for the London 2012 Games.

And with only 300 of each design produced, Olympics collectors will be keen to snap them up.

Accountant David Buxton, from Bicester, has created two limited edition mementos celebrating both Oxford and Bicester’s contribution to Olympic history.

The Oxford card commemorates the centenary of Arnold Jackson’s Stockholm Olympic gold medal victory, the Iffley Road Track where Roger Banister broke the four-minute mile record in 1954 and Brasenose College, where Jackson was a former student.

While the Bicester postcard features a series of images relating to the town, including a picture of the 1948 Olympic Torch being brought to England from Calais on board HMS Bicester and two runners who marked the start of the torch relay in Greece.

Mr Buxton said: “I chose Bicester as it is where I live and I wanted to promote that the 1948 Torch arrived in England on HMS Bicester.

“I chose Oxford, because I have lived half my life in Oxford, worked at Brasenose College and admired the career of Arnold Jackson and I wanted to commemorate both with the postcard.”

Anyone interested in buying postcards should call Mr Buxton on 01869 244031. He will also be selling them in Sheep Street, Bicester, on Tuesday when the Olympic torch visits the town.

Whether the cards will ever become as valuable as some other items of Olympic memorabilia remains to be seen. The most expensive ever sold are: In January last year, a Chinese gold 100,000 Yuan coin, weighing 10kg (22lb), which was made to commemorate the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was auctioned in the US for $575,000 (£367,000).

One of only 22 made, a torch from the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games relay was sold for €290,000 (£232,000) in Paris last year.

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