Cannon Mountain, Red Tram Shield — c. 1960s

A vintage Cannon Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a skier in red with a black pompom folded into a tuck, and below him a red tram car climbing its cables up a white slope. CANNON MOUNTAIN in black block letters on pale blue twill, yellow-bordered shield.

The scale is the joke. The skier is about the size of the tram, and he's above it, which on Cannon would put him well off the side of the mountain. Patch designers weren't paid to be engineers.

The tram was the reason people came. The skier is who they hoped to be by Sunday.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.