{"product_id":"cannon-mountain-mittersill-crest-and-m-c-1960s","title":"Cannon Mountain, Mittersill Crest and M — c. 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Cannon Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a horned beast in profile — goat or chamois, bearded and very Austrian — above a white M with long sweeping strokes, like a signature on a ski. A dark green shield split across the middle. The weave is fine enough to show the beard hair by hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMittersill was named for a castle. Schloss Mittersill sits in the Austrian Alps, and in the mid-1930s it belonged to Baron Hubert von Pantz, a young heir to an iron fortune. He fled the Nazis at the end of the decade, came to New Hampshire, and in February 1942 opened a rope tow in Franconia under the castle's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe meant to rebuild an Austrian resort next to Cannon. The first advertisements called it Franconia Mittersill. The crest on his patches came out of that world, and the M under it is the ski area's own initial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's no name on this patch. Just the beast and the M. Mittersill's lifts went quiet in 1984, and in 2009 its terrain became part of Cannon, so the crest is Cannon's now. If you skied there, you knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895741745,"sku":"RV-NH-168","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/cannon-mountain-07.jpg?v=1792925847","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/cannon-mountain-mittersill-crest-and-m-c-1960s","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}