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Vintage åsnes Tur-Langram Norwegian Hickory Wooden Skis with Original Pole

Lot # 798546

1919 E Kilgore Service Road, Kalamazoo, MI, 49001

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Item Description

Vintage åsnes Tur-Langram Norwegian Hickory Wooden Skis with Original Pole

Vintage åsnes Tur-Langram Norwegian Hickory Sole Wooden Skis with Original Poles (75mm + Never Used). Highly Sought After, Unbelievably Unique, Seriously Desirable & Rare (in this Perfect Condition) ONCE IN A LIFETIME FIND! Absolutely Best Quality & Northern European Craftsmanship Hand Made by Skilled Artisans that are Perfect for Use and or as a Beautiful & Highly Unique Sports Display. These Skis are absolutely beautiful and a serious work of art - there can’t be many (if any at all) sets of vintage wooden skis of this caliber and in this good of condition left on earth.
Åsnes Ski Factory started the first commercial manufacturing of Åsnes skis back in 1922 when the four Åsnes brothers began the ski production on a small scale. Arne Åsnes, the eldest in a Christian family of nine, got a job at LC Hagens ski factory in Oslo in 1910. After a short time, he was joined by three brothers and in 1922 they started up the Åsnes Ski Factory.
Since then, the development had gone from production of solid wooden skis to laminated wood core, glass fibre and cap skis, with or without steel edges, on an industrial and high-tech basis.
Åsnes delivered his last wooden skis to the military in 1987 and later went bankrupt in 1998.
Åsnes manufactured various other brands to be sold in the United States during the 1970s, including: Telemark, Holmenkollen, Sigmund Ruud, Norge Ski, and Trysil Knut. Customers in Norway and abroad knew little about Åsnes' profusion of models, only that they were Norwegian.
The skis shipped to the United States in all of the different brands also had different colors, such as brown, teal, and red. Skiers in Norway were happy buying Åsnes skis, but skiers in the United States were attracted to the other brands made by Åsnes, due to the brands' myths and cult-status.
Åsnes skis were imported from Norway to the United States by Haugen Nordic Products, a division of Dartmouth Outdoor Sports, Hanover, NH.
The four brothers who started Åsnes Ski Factory at work. On the left, Kristian, in the middle of the image Kolbjørn, further to the right Jonas and Leif. In the background to the right of Kristian sons Jonas, Lars (with cutter) and Jon at work.

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