{"product_id":"vintage-sugarloaf-mountain-skiing-embroidered-patch","title":"Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Patch (Kingfield) — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Sugarloaf Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s, cut as a fan — flat across the top, curving to a point below — with a gold merrowed border. A skier in red carves across a white summit under a pale blue sky, SUGARLOAF MOUNTAIN arched in red above him and KINGFIELD, MAINE in red beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe patch says Kingfield, which is the town next door rather than the one the lifts are in. That is not an error — for years Kingfield was the address, the post office and the place you stopped for gas, and Carrabassett Valley barely existed as a town. A patch that names the wrong town is usually a patch old enough to name the right one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSugarloaf held the first World Cup races ever run in the East, in 1971, which for a mountain in western Maine took a genuinely surprising amount of nerve. The circuit came to Carrabassett Valley, which at that point had barely enough beds to house it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey pulled it off. The patch has gold thread in it, which was not an accident that year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGold thread cost extra and was used for a reason. Somebody wanted this patch to look like an occasion, and that year it was one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55524387979569,"sku":"RV-ME-129","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-sugarloaf-mountain-ski-patch.webp?v=1785541923","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-sugarloaf-mountain-skiing-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}