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Berlin 1936 Olympic Games b&w photographs, postcards, lapel badge, official booklets, comprising Germany The Olympic Year 1936 by Volk and Reich, th

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Estimated Price:

£200 - £300

Berlin 1936 Olympic Games b&w photographs, postcards, lapel badge, official booklets, comprising Germany The Olympic Year 1936 by Volk and Reich, the hardback English version of GERMANY THE OLYMPIC YEAR 1936, featuring b & w images and text, damage to hardback spine; three b & w official images of the Olympic stadium, opening ceremony and building, each mounted on card with legend in German; two b & w postcards featuring the stadium and of American Jesse Owen in flight on the long jump; lapel badge, white enamelled with the Olympic rings below Brandenburg Gate, inscribed 1936 XI OLYMPIADE BERLIN, reverse with pin, 3 by 3cm., bears minor wear; official tourist booklet, published by Heinrich Hoffmann, 128-page with illustrated cover, featuring b & w images and articles, bears wear to cover corner and spine, some paper losses to spine; two official 1936 Berlin Olympic Games postcards and four further postcards relating to Germany; official booklet number 11, 36-page booklet with illustrated cover, featuring b & w images with text in English, minor wear and foxing to cover with slight discolouration; four b & w replica photographs, 7 by 5in. featuring American Jesse Owens in flight on the long jump, two 5 by 7in. photographs of the opening ceremony and the Olympic flame and the fourth featuring Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring and three first day covers, the first of a footballer, the second of a gymnast and diver and the third featuring four stamps of Adolf Hitler, (qty)