Pleasant Mountain Patch (Gold Shield) — c. 1960s

A vintage Pleasant Mountain ski patch from Bridgton, Maine, estimated to date from the 1960s, a pointed shield with a gold merrowed border. PLEASANT MOUNTAIN runs in gold block caps across a grey sky; below it a skier in a red jacket and blue trousers stands on his skis with both poles gathered, yellow track lines running out behind him, green firs at one side and a green field at the other.

He's not racing. He's standing in the middle of the run, looking at something, which is a thing you almost never see on a ski patch. Patches usually exist to sell speed, this one sells the pause at the top instead.

Grey sky, green ground and a track already cut through the snow — somebody drawing this in 1963 was drawing an ordinary Saturday rather than an advertisement, and sixty years later that is the version worth having.

There are loose red threads at one edge where somebody began sewing it onto something and stopped. It stayed in a drawer instead, which is the only reason it is in this condition.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge, with loose sewing thread at the border. Photos are the condition report.