Germany, Third Reich. A 1935 Olympic Games Preparation Commemorative Table Medal Auction Archive embroidered light gray Luftwaffe eagle

embroidered light gray Luftwaffe eagle insignia

marked on reverse HCH

1915 in Pioneer Battalion 27

Sold with newspaper cuttings relating to the recipient

never been folded

Germany, Third Reich. A 1935 Olympic Games Preparation Commemorative Table Medal Auction Archive embroidered light gray Luftwaffe eagle(Olympische Sommerspiele Erinnerungsmedaille). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, the obverse bearing a central raised mobile swastika overlaid by an Olympic flag bearer, circumscribed by a raised inscription of IM JAHRE DER OLYMPISCHEN VORBEREITUNG (IN THE YEAR OF THE OLYMPIC PREPARATION), with a date of 1935, the reverse bearing a raised German national eagle clutching the Olympic rings, above an unidentified makers mark, measuring 115 mm in