Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, With Case Newly Listed of excellent quality manufacture and

of excellent quality manufacture and impressive

topped by a gold bullion wire Crown of Saint Stephen

the reverse maker marked “Deschler & Sohn

the son of Josef Lautenschlager (✝July 31

with period bronze ring suspension

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, With Case Newly Listed of excellent quality manufacture and(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille 1936). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspensionthe obverse bearing a central raised Olympic column overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, topped by rings and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing a raised inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936 (FOR MERITORIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO