Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Hold Part of Infantry Division 30

Part of Infantry Division 30

13763 Private Peter George MacDonald

the reverse is plain and bears the maker mark “GES GESCHUTZ 800”

the reverse presents with a barrel hinge accommodating a vertical pinback with a sharp tip meeting an elongated round wire catch

Karl von Fasbender (1852-1933)

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal Hold Part of Infantry Division 30(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille). Constructed of magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, the obverse bearing a central raised Olympic column, topped by rings, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936 (FOR MERITORIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1936),