World War Two German Porcelain Bell for the 1936 XI (Eleventh) Berlin Olympics For Sale

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World War Two German Porcelain Bell for the 1936 XI (Eleventh) Berlin Olympics:
$640.90

A superbexample of the

PorcelainBell

producedfor the

ThirdReich’s XI Summer Olympics

Berlin 1936

AdolfHitler saw the 1936 Olympics games

awardedto Berlin (as the 11th Games), to be held at the German capital’s

Reichssportsfeld,

as hischance to promote his ideals of power & racial supremacy to

a watching world atlarge.

There was,however, one fly in the ointment: black athlete

Jesse Owens

who won 4 gold medals in track & field in front of a

less-than-impressed Fuhrer.

However,Hitler still got his massive propaganda success,

(thanks to the Games being skillfully captured on film by Leni Riefenstahl)

with Germany winning101 medals, including 38 at gold.

and heading the medal tables,

whilstAmerica came a distant second with just 57 medals.

Designedjointly, in 1934, by

Johannes Boehland & Walther Lemcke,

these commercially-producedsouvenir porcelain bells

were faithfully based on the massive bronze bell

held within Berlin’s famous Bell Tower.

They were very professionally designed, offering several images of TheReich,

and marketed asofficiallystate-approved Games souvenirs

with, on the front, aGerman eagle in relief holding in its talons

the 5 Olympic Ringswhilst on the back,an image of

Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate

On one sideof the bell is written, also in relief:

1-16August 1936

whilst onthe other side similarly in raised lettering:

11.OlympischeSpiel Berlin

Tocomplete the design around the bell’s

bell’sbase runs the famous Olympic slogan

“Ich rufedie Jugend der Welt”

(“I callthe Youth of the World”)

Measuringapprox. 4” x 4” the original porcelainclapper is

still in situ as is a small manufacturer’s mark of

(KPM)

Beautifully mountedon a hand-constructed black wooden frame

by the previous owner, along with anoriginal

Berlin Olympics 1936 coloured-enamel official\'s car badge,

which he found in Germany and carefully affixed to the

wooden crosspieceto complete the imagery.

A mostimpressive original 1930s German porcelain artefact

from the most famous Olympic Games in history,

beautifully mounted in recent years to show it off..!

(B/W Image Courtesy of The Tomahawk Films WW-II Archive)

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