Heavy Athletics Badge

[RonR]

A badge to recognize proficiency in heavy athletics was instituted in 1937.


Heavy athletics involved the more muscular activities such as boxing, weight lifting wrestling and similar sports.


The catch on this one has been repaired....


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[upbeek]

Ron,
Thanks for sharing I have never seen one before !
Kr Chay

[Tom B]

Kind of rare badge...to bad about the replace catch, but still nice. Tom

[ancientrelicsuk]

Thanks for sharing Ron, I've never seen one of these before either. Always good to see a new badge.

[james m]

I have a nice original example but can no longer post pictures here!
Jim

[RonR]

And the miniature stickpin....


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[Stan]

Hi Ron,

I don't really collect miniatures but that stickpin is fabulous

Stan

[kefru177]

That really is a nice badge, weitze currently has two on sale so while it’s scarce I don’t really know if it’s that rare. The reverse setup seems to be very fragile and most of the examples that I have seen show signs of repair.

Nice badge and miniature

[luftkrieg]

Ron,

That's a new one for me! Thanks for sharing this. Lovely to have the badge and stick-pin.

Kind regards,
Pierce

[Chet Sowersby]

Ron,
Count me ignorant as well as to the existence of this award. With the stick pin as well!

Chet