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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 (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 “Goldene 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: SOLD
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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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Markings |
The American teams arrive |
Goebbels with press |
Hitler with foreign press |
Hitler with winners |
The torch arrives |
Military winners |
1936 Olympic Medallion in Silver (Item OLY 7-8) |
DESCRIPTION: This is a beautiful artistic medallion that depicts the Olympic contender surmounted by the Third Reich eagle and the Olympic rings. Under this figure is the Brandenburg Gate. The words at the edge are “Ich Ruffe Die Jugend Der Welt.” Translated this reads: I call the youth of the world. A bit over 2 ½ inches in diameter, the medallion is marked on the back with a company of manufacture mark (LN) 1200 under this “Ges Getch” (patent protection) and 800, the silver content mark. We believe these pieces were originally cased but we did not receive a case with this one. The art work is typically NS beautiful and ultra dramatic. The medallion is quite rare and certainly difficult to find. It is quite heavy. The 1936 Olympiad was certainly the most controversial ever fielded but also the greatest of all to include previous and later ones.
PRICE: $395.00 |
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German champion lifter (Gold
Medal) at Olympics |
American lifter at Olympics |
Champion lifters 1936 |
Olympic Weight Lifter Support Belt (Item OLY 7-9) |
DESCRIPTION: This may or may not be from the Olympic games of 1936, but the family that we purchased it from in Germany told our agent that they thought it to be Olympic. It seems that a relative was a champion wrestler taking part in many sports contests within Germany and Austria. They didn’t know for sure if he took part in the Olympics or not but assumed he was at least signed up as a participant. The man was known to be an ardent N.S. Party member and considered himself to be a patriot in every sense of the word. So, it figures that he would have the swastika and national Socialist colors on his lifting belt. The belt is 40 inches long and five inches wide at its widest point. The swastika portion has the good honest wear and obvious age. It is apparent that this symbol was applied by the gentleman himself or an artist employed by him but it is 100% original and vintage. It is in good shape overall but the swastika panel shows some usage and wear. It is a unique item that illustrates the sports enthusiasm shown in the N.S. era. A great showpiece indeed.
PRICE: $389.00 |
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The platform |
Thank the bearer of the torch |
The committee |
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The base |
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Torch begins in Greece |
The start of the journey |
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The Berlin Stadium |
The torch enters the stadium |
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Olympic torch arrives |
The flame is lit |
Hitler greets the teams |
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The German women contestants enter |
Tilli Fletcher, champion |
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U.S. shotput |
Jesse Owens |
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Good going, Yank! |
The Wehrmacht performs |
Victors! |
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Leni Reifenstahl |
Leni's crew at work |
Siegrid Eifrig with 1936 torch |
Dr. Carl Diem, mastermind behind
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A 1936 Olympic Torch (Item OLY 7-10) |
| DESCRIPTION: We present an Olympic torch, a relic of the 1936 Olympiad in Germany. The torch in this form was invented and presented in this form for the first time by the organizers of the 1936 games. The National Socialists wanted to stage an event that would link the modern Olympics to the ancient, so the idea was put forth and approved by Carl Diem, the main organizer of the games. The whole of this spectacular event was planned by the N.S. Leadership to project the image of the Third Reich as a modern economically ultra-dynamic state with growing international influence. The lighting of the torch at the ancient Olympian site in Greece and then running it through different counties was brilliant! The idea fit in perfectly with the belief that classical Greece was truly an Aryan forerunner of the modern German Reich of Adolf Hitler. The first torch was lit in Greece with the help of mirrors made by the German company Zeiss. Steel clad magnesium torches to carry the flare were specially produced by the Ruhr-based industrial giant Krupp. Media coverage was masterminded by the N.S. propaganda office and its chief, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, using the latest techniques and technology. Dramatic coverage of the torch's progress kept up the excitement and Leni Riefenstal filmed it masterfully to create beautiful yet powerful images. In 1936, the torch made its way from Greece to Berlin through countries in south-eastern and central Europe. The Fuhrer declared “Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.” It is generally believed that the flames arrival in Vienna prompted major pro-N.S. demonstrations and may well have paved the way for the Austrian Anschulss or annexation of Austria in 1938. In 1936, there was no doubt that the spectacle of Diem’s torch relay was judged a great international success. As a suitably Aryan German athlete carried the torch into the stadium in Berlin, the BBC British Broadcasting Radio Commentator was deeply impressed. “He’s a fair young man in white shorts, he is beautifully made, a very fine sight as an athlete.” One of the runners was Siegfried Eifrig, who carried the torch as it arrived in the center of Berlin. Flanked by huge swastika flags, he then lit the fire on the iron alter in what could be called pseudo-religious symbolism (it was a very solemn ceremony and with the crowd still extremely impressed with Hitler’s statement about peace among the nations they treated that ceremony with suitable reverence).
Eifrig is still alive --aged 98 -- and still has his Krupp torch engraved with the route of the 1936 relay.
The torch itself was designed by the sculptor Lemcke and was in polished steel. On the handle was the inscription “Fackelstaffel-lauf Olympia 1936", with Olympic rings and the German eagle superimposed on the bottom part along the staff -- you will see the map of the route of the torch from Olympia to Berlin. On the top platform, is the inscription Organisations- Komitee fur die XL Olympiade Berlin 1936 Als Dank Der Trager” (Committee for the XL Olympic in Berlin. We thank the Carrier”). This is exactly what the piece we offer says. It is an exact period recreation of the Olympic torches originally carried back then and when we say (recreation) we mean period!!! These torches as you see here were crafted to be ‘exact’ recreations of the ones actually carried; they were presented by the Committee to persons who helped in the organization of the games, financial donors, and even non-German people who helped to make the games such a success. We have been told that the torches were even sold in some specialty shops in Berlin in the late 30’s but at very high prices. Underneath the platform are the words “Krupp Nirosta V2A Stahl and Stiftung der Fried.Krupp a.g. Essen. The word Stiftung means foundation so obviously the recreation torches were reproduced in the 30s and perhaps later by the Krupp firm to commerate the Games of 1936. The torch is made in light thin steel.
The words and map of the torch route stand out in a silver tone etching. The route map shows the path of the torch bearer from Olympic to Athens, then to Delphi, Salon, Sofia, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Prag, and Dresden and on to Berlin. This is not only an impressive looking piece but a memorial in a way of the greatest Olympiad up to that time and in our opinion greater than all the ones hence -- we will say nothing about the controversies created by the leftist and liberal media. Especially the Jesse Owens falsehood and “myth.” We will not even address the fact that it was Germany who won more of the gold and silver medals than any other country. Sometime go to Google and put in German Myth 10 Hitler and Jesse Owens and see how propagandists in the U.S. managed to create the old canard and myth generally accepted by those who have no revisionist curiosity that empowers them to ferret the truth out of purposeful deception. Maybe this article that I write here might spur you on to further investigation into what have been continual lies and distortions for some 73 years now.
PRICE: $2,800.00 |
1936 Olympic Vase for the “World’s Fastest Woman” Helen Stephens (Item OLY 7-11) |
DESCRIPTION: We are often asked by customers, collectors and historians the question “What is the greatest, most historically important item that you have ever handled at Germania?" That is definitely a hard one because our company has had the absolutely greatest items that have ever seen (once more) the light of day...Hitler’s personal property, Heydrich, Goebbels, and some of the most fantastic items having been the personal effects of Hermann Goring, items of art and culture, Germanic and international abound in our pages. So, dear collector, it is with great pride that we now offer one of the most important pieces of all (our opinion).
The Olympic games of 1936 were a celebration of youth and sport and some thought of it as a “manly sport” and indeed it was male dominated for centuries and one could envision it as the contests of the “warrior spirit,” and in fact, there was considerable opposition on moral and biological grounds to women competing in such vigorous sports. Sport heroines, such as the American Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson and the world’s “fastest woman,” Helen Stephens, who disavowed conventional images of femininity, were exploited and ridiculed by the press. Actually female athletes began to match the attainments of their male counterparts, yet sought to preserve the feminine qualities of their style. Helen Stephens, born February 3, 1918, grew up on a farm in Callaway County near Fulton, Missouri. As a child Helen loved to run, jump and climb. She also had to work hard on the family farm. “From the time when I was a small child I was in training, only I didn’t know it.” Helen once said, “I was walking, running, doing chores, building up my body, my lung capacity, my wind, my endurance, everything that people have to train for today.” When she was eight, Helen dreamed that she was the fastest runner in the world. Helen’s high school physical education teacher, Coach W. Burton Moore knew how to train athletes for track and field events and when he discovered how fast Helen could run he decided to help make her dream come true. In 1934, Helen was fifteen years old and nearly six feet tall. Coach Moore clocked Helen running the 50 yard dash. Her time was 5.8 seconds. This time actually tied the world record held by Elizabeth Robinson. On March 22, 1935 Coach Moore took Helen to St. Louis for her first official race. Helen ran against Stella Walsh, a Polish Gold Medalist from the 1932 Olympics. She beat Stella in the 50 meter dash at 6.6 seconds setting a new indoor record on a dirt track. The press gave Helen the titles “The Missouri Express” and “The Fulton Flash.” Years later Helen admitted “That's when I learned everybody likes a winner." In the summer of 1936, Helen Stephens and the other Olympic team members sailed to Germany to compete in the IX Olympiad in Berlin. During the voyage, Stephens received letters asking her not to compete. Some American wanted her to protest the alleged mistreatment of the Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. But she ignored these issues that she considered political, because she wanted to fulfill her responsibilities as an athlete. On August 4, 1936, 18 year old Helen Stephens set the Olympic World record for the 100 meter event at 11.5 seconds. Her record stood for 24 years until Wilma Rudolph beat it in the 1966 Olympics. On August 9th, Stephens was the anchor in the 400-meter relay team that set a World Record time of 46.9 seconds. She received a gold medal for each event. Stephens had fulfilled her childhood dream. She was the fastest woman runner in the world. Upon returning from Berlin she and Jesse Owens headlined a tour before Stephens moved on to play professional basketball and softball. She competed later in more than 100 races winning every one of them. She continually engaged in various sport activity for the rest of her life.
The vase is somewhat of a mystery. We know that several of them were made up and purchased by the national sport organization on the special orders of the Reichs-sport director Hans Von Tshammer und Osten; it was his intention to award these beautiful cut glass vases to all the gold medal winners but this would have been weeks or months after the games were over. By this time the blatant anti-German propaganda and demonstrations had reached a fever pitch in the USA. Various ethnic and religious groups beating the drums of discord against Germany were blatantly in evidence, especially since the Fatherland was beginning to be looked at with admiration and awe by so many who were extremely impressed with the showing that Germany and its leaders had made with the games. No Olympia before this one or afterward would ever be able to match the beauty and excitement of the Berlin presentation. This would not do with certain groups and their venom was both loud and effective. Thus Jesse Owens and Helen Stephens never went back to claim their laurels or the vase. They would have been highly honored by the N.S. Government and the German people -- this was assured but who can blame them for not going, when one considers the name calling and vilification they would have had to endure especially in America now that the media was controlled by the agitators who were a small minority but had a powerful strangle hold on media influenced bias. So, Helen never returned to Germany to receive the vase. How many of the Gold competitors did, we do not know and how the vase dedicated to her that would have contained bright flowers was never presented? How it got from the possession of the Olympic committee to a shop in East Berlin we will probably never know but it can be assumed that in the turmoil of 1945 and later in Germany’s war torn capitol anything not nailed down was surely stolen or it was sequestered away. Actually, it was only by luck that our German picker was able to procure it for us. Positively amazing!!!. Besides all the great history connected to this piece, you must realize it is also an art piece of great beauty. It is a cut glass vase ‘par excellence’ as was a befitting prize to the top winners who Germany wanted to individually honor highly .The vase stands about 15 inches tall...10 inches for the body of the glass and 5 inches for the measurement of the top lid. The diameter of the mouth when uncovered is 4 ½ inches, while the bottom pedestal measures 4 inches. The engraving in the bottom pedestal proclaims Olympia 1936 Berlin while around the top rim it says “Wunderlauternin Helen Stevens- 11.5 Sek. Welt und Olympisher rekord.” This translates to: "Wonder-runner Helen Stephens 11.5 seconds. World and Olympic Record." Below this and in the center is a wonderful engraved image of a female runner. Amazingly it actually looks like Helen. Over this is engraved - Der 100 Meter Lauf Goldmedaille USA. (The 100 meter race --Gold Medal U.S.A.). On the back side of the glass is the American flag shield. On the top lid is engraved Preis Der Internationalen Amateure Athletik Federation (Prize for the International Amateur Athletic Federation).
The vase is, as we emphasize, an art treasure on its own with various geometric patterns of great artistic beauty all throughout the creation. This was truly a prize that Helen would have adored and would have had great pride in exhibiting with all her other dozens of trophies. This would have been the best of all of them, a pity that abusive propaganda sewn by “culture aliens” prevented her from attending the ceremonies that accompanied the presentation of these prizes. Incredible that after all these years that Germania International was able to bring it to America where it truly belongs. The collector who manages to procure this one will be equally proud. Probably as proud as the World’s Fastest Woman would have been to receive it and Germania is very proud to have the chance to offer it. Here is both America and the Reich honoring Helen Stephens, Olympic Champion personified.
PRICE: $9,800.00 |
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