All about Antiques : Antiques Olympics 1936 Pins

Collecting Olympic pins are a popular hobby and some of them, especially antiques, is quite valuable as the famous antique 1936 Olympic pins created to help finance the Games in Berlin this year. Between 1933 and 1936, more than one million sold as brooches and pins, along with canceled for 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo, which was canceled because of World War II are among the most coveted Olympic pins.The tradition of Olympic Pin

It all began in 1896 with the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece as something that they were the "territory", the athletes, games officials and members of the media covering the events were among them. We trade colorful badges identifying with each other. The badges are cardboard disks on which designs, names and titles printed.

This continued until the 1912 Games in Stockholm, where the first official Olympic souvenir pins were produced. The hobby of pin trading continued quiet mid-twentieth century, but the 1980 really took off as people outside the community found a pin-trading Olympic pins.Rise of the Pinheads
With all due respect to the Clive Barker, the first "pinheads» emerged during the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, when thousands of pin collectors and traders came from the city in search of these unique pieces of sports memorabilia. Until 1988, Calgary Games, the Coca-Cola Company has established the first formal, pin trading center. He did a brisk business with about 17,000 people a day coming into the center. Since then, it has become a fixture at the Olympics with world leaders, even getting involved. In 1994 games in Lillehammer, then first lady Hillary Clinton and daughter Chelsea, stopped at the center of commerce official U.S. presidential seal lapel.The Allure of Antique 1936 Olympic Pins: The Nazis and the Berlin GamesWhat is it about the 1936 Games draws our attention? Why can find antique 1936 Olympic pins so alluring? The connection to the Nazis is probably the most popular answer. Before his rise to power, Hitler spoke passionately against the Olympics, disparaging the idea of superior German race who have to compete with smaller races. But when it came to power, saw this as an opportunity to win the world to show them, in German territory, how great Nazi administration was in command of the country, how happy the world is and how false the accusations against him were . It was the last big event to happen in Germany before Hitler's tanks rolled.
The spectacle of the Berlin Games was amazing. Eric Nash, Executive Director, International Sports Hall of Fame and Olympic Museum, spoke about the 1936 games in glowing terms, calling them "the best organized and most impressive Olympics I've ever seen." He describes his reaction as "extremely impressed and excited "and discusses how Avery Brundage
Brundage, then president of the International Olympic Committee should have taken off, indeed. In a move that critics have declared appeasement of anti-Semitism of Hitler, Brundage remove Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only two Jews from the U.S. Men's Track and Field Team. They were replaced by Coach Dean Cromwell by Frank Metcalfe and a reluctant Jesse Owens, who had already won three gold medals.
This is these pins, these small-historical relics represent the drama and intensity of games played on the brink of World War II against a backdrop of vicious racism and antisemitism. These are reminders of what Nash has called "the best organized and imposing Olympics" has ever seen. However, they are also reminders of conscious blindness in the world what the Nazis did and the willingness of the International Olympic Committee, and the speed of the U.S. Olympic Committee, to be subordinated to Adolph Hitler.
It is difficult to find on the Internet. You can check them out, you place a bid and make a little piece of history home. When you do, they reflect the lives, actions and history that stands behind this little pin. Reflect on what happened.