An I.O.C. session badge for the London meeting in 1939, gilt-metal & enamel, Britannia holding the Olympic Rings aloft with her trident, inscribed I.O

An I.O.C. session badge for the London meeting in 1939, gilt-metal & enamel, Britannia holding the Olympic Rings aloft with her trident, inscribed I.O.C. LONDON 1939, XXXVI MEETING, ribbon suspension, brooch fitting; sold together with an unidentified enamelled badge also from 1939, inscribed 1939, MONACO, J U I., surmounted by Olympic Rings At the 1939 IOC Session in London Garmisch-Partenkirchen were selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics and Cortina d'Ampezzo would do so in 1944. London was selected to host the Summer Games of 1944. All of course were cancelled upon the outbreak of the Second World War and all international Olympic business was suspended indefinitely.