Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Newly Listed loop stamped SILBER

loop stamped SILBER

with alternating wreathed swastika and eagle insignias on the panels

some carrying briefcases

with the lid lined on the interior (maker marked “Deschler & Sohn

mesh backer peeling away at the top exposing the underlying structure

Germany, Third Reich. A German Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case Newly Listed loop stamped SILBER(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936 mit Etui). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered magnetic steel, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a raised column topped by Olympic ring, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN