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Olympia Zeitung (Item OLY 7-1)
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a huge volume of many copies of the official organ of the XI Olympic Games in 1936 in Berlin. Here we have in newspaper style hundreds of pages and thousands of pictures dealing with the greatest of the Games that the world has ever experienced. This was the NS Olympics and the glorious spectacle reveals in every aspect within these pages. The pages abound with great pictures of opening ceremonies, preparations, jubilant Berlin, and proud and happy Germany. No book published then or now covers in depth these glorious games as this one does. Jesse Owens, whom the propagandists say Hitler and the Germans snubbed, is shown on several pages. One picture has the title of “Everyone was keen to congratulate Jesse.” It’s so completely covered as to leave nothing out. It would take a very long written narration and seemingly endless photography to give you an idea of how voluminous this archival treasure truly is. The text throughout the issues is in German, English, and French. There are over 650 pages. This in every sense of the word is a treasure of an archival history of the 1936 Olympics.
PRICE: $495.00
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Model of the Reichsportsfeld Berlin, 1936 Olympiad (Item OLY 7-2)
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| DESCRIPTION: Here is an extremely rare, boxed relief map of the sports field of the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin in 1936. This is incredible! It is a 12 x 9-inch relief portrayal manufactured in plastic of the entire Olympic grounds including the main stadium and all the secondary stadiums, to include swimming pools, youth headquarters, horse barns, main gates with towers, places for riding, gymnastics, hockey arena, recreation grounds, equestrian school, open-air theatre “Dietrich Eckert Thingplatz,” the House of German Sport, tunnels, etc. At the edges of the map are the words XI Olympiad August 1936 (and then the Olympic rings) and it continues with Reichsportsfeld Berlin. In the top of the case that contains the map is a plan or chart that has a paper map with numbered areas designated and corresponding to the various places on the relief map below. The material used in the relief map is probably Bakelite rather than plastic. In any case, this is a wonderful and historically important find and would certainly be the centerpiece of any good Olympic collection. This was the Olympiad that historians admit was the greatest of them all.
PRICE: $1,200.00; ultra rare!
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1936 Olympic Cut Glass Pokal, or Vase (Wonderful) (Item OLY 7-3)
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| DESCRIPTION: Olympic collectors, “get a grip.” This is one of the finest Olympic items that we have ever offered or ever seen offered, anywhere! It is a large vase or glass goblet in the finest of cut or pressed glass. It's about 15 1/2 inches tall with a 5-inch mouth opening and a bottom base portion about 6 inches in diameter. It is stunning indeed! This was obviously a special prize for an Austrian boxer at the 1936 Olympic Games. The central theme is a panel about 4 1/2 inches wide and 3 inches tall that has a great depiction of two prizefighters battling it out within the ropes of the ring. This scene is in genuine cut glass. Hand engraved on the other side is a panel that has the words cut in it that say “Berlin-Boxturnier,” or Berlin Boxing Competition, and then another panel says “Olympia 1936.” All these letters and words are hand engraved. At the crown or top of the lid is a beautiful Austrian double-headed eagle also hand cut into the glass. Around the bottom plinth are the words in old German script “Ehrenpreis des Osterreichischen Olympia Fonds.” This means that this honorable prize was from the Austrian Olympia funds. This was a very special fund that was raised by collection from sports enthusiasts all over the Austrian homeland to enable contestants to travel and be able to afford to stay in the Reichshauptstadt in Berlin, and train for weeks before and during the events. The fund was also to purchase such prizes as this that undoubtedly were very costly at that time. Something like this probably cost the special fund some real money. The piece is really beautiful and obviously very important, historically. The boxing competitions were held at Deutschland Hall and attracted the largest entry ever received in all classes from flyweight to heavyweight. The boxers from Germany and Austria carried off top honors in all classes. This Pokal was undoubtedly a very special prize given with intense pride to one of Austria's sons for exemplary performance and boxing skills. In the attached images we have placed some colored cloth inside the vase so that you might be able to see the design of the engraved glass more clearly. In one of the pictures you can see the actual knockout punch as delivered at the Olympics. The famous scene was the design for the picture on the vase; note the similarity. The German and Austrian boxing contestants are also shown in their specially designed Olympic summer uniforms. This vase is both rare and beautiful and deserves a very special place in a sports museum or fine collection such as yours.
PRICE: $3,650.00; a bargain
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Promotion Documents to Olympic Gold Medal Winner for Horsemanship (Item OLY 7-4; WEHR 26-10)
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| DESCRIPTION: This is an original promotion document on official Reich's award parchment signed in hand by General Field marshal and Supreme Commander of the German Army, Walther von Brauchitsch, who was made marshal in 1940 and was the virtual key in Germany's blitzkrieg against the Western powers. His specialty (artillery). The beautiful document also bears Adolf Hitler's facsimile signature, but von Brauchitsch’s signature is most definitely hand written. It has the official eagle and swastika seal in a circular wreath of oak leaves. This seal is embossed. The document awards the Rittmeister (horse master) Rudolf Lippert the elevated rank of major on December 1, 1938. The promotion approved by the Führer was conferred at the Berchtesgaden Reich Chancellery. The man, now a major, was one of the gold-medal winners at the Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin. The prestigious equestrian magazine Reiten Saint Georg in the August 1988 issue, had an article about German army riders at the Olympics. In this magazine is a picture of the then Rittmeister Rudolf Lippert with two other German officers on horseback. This picture is from the 1936 Olympic Games, and there were entries and winners in the horsemanship contests. With the grouping of the document and magazine clippings is another page from a book that listed the gold-medal winners and there you will see the name of R. Lippert and the other two officers in the picture listed as winners of the “Golden Medaillen.” The former owner of the document group thought so much of it that he somewhere along the way bought a hardcover folder probably made for the issue of some other document that features the NS eagle and the words “Adolf Hitler” on the front, and has an onionskin parchment inside that looks the same as the cover, only in white. What this is from, we don't know, but the buyer gets this as well. The grouping is vastly important to the advanced Wehrmacht collector, or even more so to the collector of 1936 Olympic articles.
PRICE: $550.00
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NS Sports Stein for the Physical Training Program (DRL) (Item OLY 7-5)
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| DESCRIPTION: DRL was Deutscher Reichsbund für Liebesübungen (German Reich Organization for Physical Training). This stein or Krug was the official mug of the organization within the Third Reich dedicated to bringing sports and physical exercise to the German Volk. It was part and parcel to the National Sports Organization whose chief was the Reichsport Director Hans von Ischammer und Osten, the man who organized the German athletes for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. The stein is actually a Krug measuring only 4 1/2 inches high with a 3 1/2-inch mouth opening. It’s a very colorful little stein. At the front design are two German athletes one on each side of a bust of “Father Jahn”, 1778-1852. The “Turnvater”, the greatest gymnastics teacher of the Fatherland’s youth. His given name is Fredrich Ludwig Jahn. It was Jahn that first developed the famous Turner Verien. Turnen was an old Teutonic word meaning gymnastics. Read about Father Jahn on the web. The stein has a hole in the upper handle. People always think when seeing this that a lid is missing; however, this is incorrect. All Krugs were made with the hole and it was there if the buyer wanted to order a lid. But if they did not the hole was in the mold and invariably was there in every case. This particular stein never had a lid. The blue delft-style color is quite attractive and this is a rare piece. How many survived the conflagration in 1944-45?
PRICE: $550.00
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1936 Olympic Games Commemorative Medal (Item OLY 7-6)
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| DESCRIPTION: Some 54,900 persons received this medal which was instituted on 31 July 1936. The award was established to recognize services rendered in connection with the preparation and execution of the 11th Summer and 4th Winter Olympic Games in 1936. The award was not restricted to German nationals on the reverse is the inscription: “FÜR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN, 1936,” “For Meritorious Cooperation in the Olympic Games, 1936.”
PRICE: $165.00
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Turn Verein Standard with Father Jahn (Item OLY 7-7; GERMAN SPORTS 1-1)
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| DESCRIPTION: The first Turn Verein was established by Father Ludwig Jahn in 1809. This was developed by this priest to drill his followers in gymnastics, but also in military tactics because this was the time when Germany was being suppressed by Napoleon. In later years, however, music, theatricals, and oratory were added to the social function of the Turners in the German community. The watchword was always “a sound mind in a sound body.” It must always be kept in mind that the original organization was first formed as a nationalistic response to the war of liberation against Napoleon and fostered rigorous exercise among boys and young men to produce a healthy body and to enable them to be able to effectively protect their Fatherland. Suffering repression in its early decades it eventually became absorbed within the state. Father Jahn was born in 1778 in Brandenburg, Prussia. In 1806 he witnessed the defeat of Prussia and the conquest of Germany, which sparked his decision to work for the unity and freedom of Germany. In 1813 gymnasts and students proved their worth in the volunteer Lützow Corps; Jahn himself was one of the commanding officers. All this was good preparation for the “big one,” “the Battle of Nations” at Leipzig in 1813 followed after Napoleon’s utter defeat. The allies marched into Paris in 1814. Jahn’s demands of the day—“Freedom of Speech,” a real constitution; the unity of the Fatherland. Today, freedom of speech in Bundes-Deutschland is a joke. Father Jahn was imprisoned and persecuted for years for his thoughts and utterances just as scholars in Europe are also jailed for their thoughts and utterances. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn died at the age of 74 in Freyburg an der Unstrut. His name lives on all over the world in the gyms and stages of the Turner Veriens. Its motto “Frisch, Fromm, Frölich, Frei,” “Hardy, Pious, Cheerful, Free.” The banner measures 37 x 37 inches and is in beautiful almost-mint condition and it is the type that would be carried in a parade of the Turners and also would hang in its headquarters. The words at the top are “Wer Seinen Körper Stählt,” and at the bottom there are the words “Pflegt Seine Seele.”
PRICE: $380.00
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