Very rare 'Golden Chain of Office' for the Members of the International Olympic Committee, Designed by the sculptor Walter E. Lemcke (1891-1935) from

Very rare 'Golden Chain of Office' for the Members of the International Olympic Committee, Designed by the sculptor Walter E. Lemcke (1891-1935) from the original ancient Greek artefacts in the Old Museum in Berlin, cast gilt-bronze, approx. 80cm., the chain linking six plaquettes featuring horseman with relay torch (silver coin from Taranto, 300 BC), javelin thrower (from bowl, 430 B.C.), discus thrower (silver coin from Cos, 500 B.C.), wrestlers (silver coin from Aspendos, 400 B.C.), runner bearing arms (from bowl, 500 B.C.) and a youth with jumping weights (from bowl, 490 B.C.), all above enamel Olympic rings from which is suspended a larger plaque with the head of Zeus (after a famous sculpture), reverse engraved XI. OLYMPIADE BERLIN 1936 at the top with the intention of leaving room for 10 future Olympiads (reference, Official report p.126/127; Olympic Games News Service No. 33), but the Golden Chain of Office was abandoned and only ever worn at the Berlin 1936 Games There were 68 IOC members plus IOC President Baillet- Latour at the time of the Berlin games.