Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case visually-hidden The blade is beautifully etched

The blade is beautifully etched and clear and  exhibits strong crossgrains and the majority of wear that is present

tasked with providing air defence in the vital Ruhr industrial region

Jubilee Commemorative Medal 1898 "Signvm Memoriae" (Jubiläums Erinnerungsmedaille 1898)

on loop for suspension from its period original civilian-issue ribbon

Footnote: Franklin Marion Gentry

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Games Commemorative Medal, with Case visually-hidden The blade is beautifully etched(Deutsche Olympia Erinnerungsmedaille mit Etui). Instituted 31 July 1936. (1936 1937 issue). Constructed of silvered magnetic metal, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with pinback, the obverse bearing a raised column topped by Olympic rings, overlaid by a German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika, and flanked by a date of 1936, the reverse bearing an inscription of FR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN