Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Auction a monogram pin

a monogram pin

responsibility for the expeditions was transferred from the Admiralty to the Colonial Office

51 mm x 100 mm

that runs from the top to the bottom

scattered chipping evident in the blue enamels on the obverse centrepiece

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Auction a monogram pin(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered bronze, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised column, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, topped by Olympic rings, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN