Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Equestrian Team Donor’s Badge Auction Armed Forces Merit Medal (bronze

Armed Forces Merit Medal (bronze gilt

each patch with a silvered aluminum button with a pebbled upper

In stamped silver steel

Instituted 1 May 1937

light weight construction

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Equestrian Team Donor’s Badge Auction Armed Forces Merit Medal (bronze(Reiter Olympia Spende Abzeichen). Constructed of gilded bronze with mult coloured enamels, horizontal pinback, the obverse bearing a depiction of a mounted horse participating in an equestrian event, above Olympic rings and topped by an inscription of REITER OLYMPIA SPENDE, the reverse maker marked DEUTSCH. OLYMP. KOM. F. REITEREI for the German Olympic Committee for Riding, measuring 35 mm (w) x 28 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.