Spring Auction Series 2016

1936 Berlin memorabilia group incl. envelope insert "Posted by the XLCR representative at the Stadium", S.S. "Olympic" headed lettersheet and plain envelope with embossed Olympic Rings on flap, silk handkerchief bordered with flags of participating nations, type letter from the Organising Committee, official guide book to the Games in French and hymn book for the Olympic Hymn performance on August 1st (foxed)

1936 Berlin, two advertising brochures for the documentary film "Olympia" by Leni Riefenstahl, 22x30cm, one entitled "Fest der Voelker" and other "Fest der Schoenheit" (some small tears), fine

Miscellaneous: Wooden letter opener signed by 34 different Olympic Athletes including gold medal winners Jesse Owens, Jack Lovelock and J.Woodruff etc., plus letter from the person who got the letter opener signed, unusual, attractive and scarce

Austographs: JESSE OWENS signed picture postcard of himself running at the Berlin Games, a little smudged and some creases

The Extremely Rare Ticket Album





The Berlin 1936 Olympic Committee large green album with fifty-three large grey specially printed album pages all held together by three original brass screws.





The title page reads "SAMMELMAPPE DE AUSGEGEGEBENEN EINTRITTSKARTEN, AUSWEISE UND ABZEICHEN / ORGANISATIONSKOMITEE FUR DIE XI. OLYMPIADE BERLIN 1936 E.V." The following 32 pages show...

Tickets: Group of 4 used tickets incl. Opening Ceremony (clipped tab), Athletics 3rd Aug (day of 100m final with Jesse Owens), 8th Aug (decathlon final) and Hockey 14th Aug

Postcards: Large accumulation 100s of mostly unused postcards ordered by printer including Andres, Ashelm, Awez, Baur, Bayer, Bemberg, Berg, Bettenhausen, DFW, Dreyer, Dullien, EMB, Eckert, Geyer, Heep, Hinsch, Hoffmann, Hugel, IWB, Kern, Klement, Klinke, Köfer, Lichte, Lissner, Reichssportsverlag with & without number, Stengel, Trinks, Wehrmacht etc., some used with Olympic franking & cancels, mixed to very fine (100s)

Photographs: Hauf Film attractive selection of 42 enlarged photographs showing the opening ceremony and an array of other events including football, hockey, polo, track & field, cycling, gymnastics, horse jumping, swimming, diving, water polo, canoeing, boxing etc., plus 20 other photos, mixed to very fine (Est. € 300/400)

Original 8mm Leni Riefenstahl film of an equestrian event at the Games, inscribed "Military Olympia 1936" on side, housed in a gold and red cardboard slip case, with small slip saying that the film is for personal use only, scarce

605.036.098: Olympics. 1936 Berlin. Memorabilia - Miscellaneous

Photocards from the "Olympia" books, unaffixed and housed in two albums, with 157 8x12cm and 61 17x12cm, fine

Posters: 1936 Official Brandenburg Gate Quadriga Olympic Games Poster, in green and orange offset printing, 62 cm x 101 cm, designed by Friedel Dzubas and Krauss, showing Quadriga on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, between Olympic legend, neatly framed, very fine and very scarce

Posters: Official poster in Dutch, 63x101cm, designed by Franz Wuerbel, Berlin, offset printing, showing victorious athlete over quadriga on Brandenburg Gate, several folds and repairs, backed on linen, only 3000 printed