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Nice booklet John! Its a DRA Leistungsbuch of Adolf Baumeister. Mister Baumeister was member of Turn und Sportverein "Jahn" in München. It says that mister Baumeister succeeded in reaching the sportive conditions for group 1 by swimming 300 meters in 7 minutes and 5 seconds, group 2 by far jumping a distance of 4 meters and 96 centimeters, group 3 by sprinting 100 meters in 13 seconds, group 4 by shot-putting a ball (with the stated specifications, not sure if its size or weight) for 8 meters and 74 centimeters and group 5 by running 10 kilometres in 46 minutes and 32 seconds. By doing all that, he received the bronze Leistungsabzeichen on November 24, 1925. Do you also have the award with it?

The writing up front you mean? Probably a stamp or a mold, yes. Here is the promised little bird Joe! You'll like this one Unfortunately this one suffered a bit of damage; the yellow shield broke right below the word "kraft". And a picture of the back. The repaired pin-attachment was glued over the name Seiffen.

I like them too This is a nice one for a KdF-trip to the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung. There's no year on this one, so we can't know for sure which show it was. Not even Tiëste mentions a year for this tinnie in his book. As there is a wooden tinnie for the Gau Sachsen KdF-trip to the 1937 show that has the year on it, and because the 1939 show was quite remarkable and would probably have hinted at why that was, this tinnie probably is for one of the other shows between 1933 and 1939. The German International Motor Show goes back to 1897, when the first one was held. That year, it had 8 vehicles on display. There were two or more shows each year, until the First World War began. The show resumed in 1921, with approximately 70 vehicles on display. Early in 1939, the 29th show took place, and it attracted close to 900.000 visitors. This was the Motor Show that introduced the KdF-Wagen. There would be no next Automobil und Motorrad Ausstellung until six years after the Second World War ended. The tinnie is marked with makersnumber 28. Seiffen, of course, a village in the Erzgebirge that is known as Spielzeugdorf since before 1760 even.

Both Motorgruppe Hochland badges are very nice @AlecH! Thanks for showing these. As a thank-you I'll put another Motorgrupe Hochland badge here; for the Gruppenwettkämpfe Hochland in 1939

Hi Joe! Yes, it's a lovely wooden tinnie with the same "Monte Olivia "subject! And not at all common.This topic is full of wonderful examples I never saw before. In fact, the wooden tinnie reminds me of my favourite tinnie; the one shown below Perhaps you remember it? The pictures are quite old, but they still sort of work. Thank you Rosenberg!

I like items that belong together, items that form a slice of history. This is such a slice, a rather nice one at that. Here's the pin-back version of the stick-pin shown by Wood, above. The pin belongs to a postcard and a menu card from 1934. The group can be traced to the very day; may 27, 1934. One postcard shows the Monte Olivia (3rd picture), and it also shows the date that it was signed and sent on at the back (4th picture). Another postcard shows part of the 1934 crew of the Monte Olivia, and a menu card shows what the person(s) that sent the postcards ate on board of the Monte Olivia. The fifth voyage of 1934. I used another group of cards as decoration; consecutive menu cards from the same year and the same vessel, but from another voyage (the 9th). Most of you know of the KdF organisation. Some of you probably know what that organisation actually did, and what it stood for. One of the ships of the KdF fleet was the Monte Olivia. Shipping Company "Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft" finished building the ship in 1924. The ship was a steamer, its maiden voyage was in April 1925. Until it was confiscated by KdF it was used as a cruiser. The Dresden (Norddeutschen Lloyd) and the Monte Olivia were the first two ships that serviced the KdF as of 1934. The Monte Olivia made trips around the British isles, the Baltic Sea, and to Norway and back to Germany. For those of you that don't understand the significance of this; KdF was the organisation that sprouted mass-tourism as you know it today. When the war really started to rage, the Monte Olivia was used as a depot ship for the cruiser Nürnberg. Battle-cruiser-buffs will enjoy this. As of 1944 the duties of the ship started to be more more salving. It was converted by the Kriegsmarine, and late in 1944 the ship was used as hospital ship. It was used heavily to evacuate Germans from the annexed Polish areas. It was used as such until the RAF wrecked the ship on April the 3rd, 1945. From June 1946 until 1948 the wreckage was deconstructed. The design of the pin resembles the design of a couple of other pins that probably were made by the same maker. I saw one or two in this topic already. The last picture below shows another one of those variations. The pin is for an Allgäufahrt. Those trips were at the outback of Germany, so a different range of vessels applied for those trips.

Nice NSRL cardboard pin for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of gymnastics association Turnerbund Jahn 1899 e.V. Seckenheim, a traditional club. Jahn was of course the founding father of gymnastics as sport in Germany, which started with the creation of the Deutschen Bund in 1810. In honor of "Turnvater Jahn", many clubs and associations included his name when they were founded. During Hitler's reign, National Socialists tried to make Jahn the Precursor of National Socialism. The Seckenheim association still exists today as Turnerbund Jahn 1899 e.V. Mannheim-Seckenheim.