Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Equestrian Team Donor’s Badge Auction maker marked "ROMAN TAVAST" on

maker marked "ROMAN TAVAST" on the bronze screwback

in the words of historian Stephen Ambrose

Instituted in 1920

light weight construction

1915 near Dydiowa (present day southern Poland) by repelling Russian forces that had already broken through the Austrian lines

Germany, Third Reich. An Olympic Equestrian Team Donor’s Badge Auction maker marked "ROMAN TAVAST" on(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.