Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Province of China and valour in battle

and valour in battle

only a small remnant is still visible

with a white enamelled body presenting delicate wishbone shaped feather detailing in the neck

as well as prewar documents and cards

65mm (l) x 13

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Province of China and valour in battle(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