Eva Braun`s Bowling Pin!!

[Chris Lee]

Just Kidding Something I picked up years ago. Seems the Nazis`s had a pin , badge and medal for everything

[Wallace]

A beautifull Tinnie you have there mate

[Rik]

That's a nice one. Haven't seen that one before.

[Adrian Stevenson]

I think Chris is having a joke with us. I don't think there is any connection with the Third Reich at all with this peice. The swastika is more likely present as a good luck symbol.

Cheers, Ade.

[Chris Lee]

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Actually Ade, I am joking about the Eva Braun thing, but this is indeed a TR period piece, a Kegel award or broach to be exact

[Chris Lee]

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Has anyone seen anything similar to this before?

[torstenbel]

I think Chris is having a joke with us. I don't think there is any connection with the Third Reich at all with this peice. The swastika is more likely present as a good luck symbol.

Cheers, Ade.

I am with Ade on this one, unless there is an inscription on the reverse of the piece that says otherwise? I would have thought the Kegel broach is from around 1900 and swastikas were used during that time as a good luck charm in various countries...unless the swastika was added to the piece by some, somewhere at a later stage and for whatever reason? Cheers, Torsten.

[Chris Lee]

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Trying to do alittle research on this pin and was able to find that the Germans did play a version of bowling using 9 pins. It was played in Australia as well by ethnic Germans who brought it there in the early 1900`s. It was called Kegeln.

[RonR]

From the 1936 tournament in Berlin...........


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[RonR]

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[RonR]

Keglers on Parade.......


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[Chris Lee]

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Ron
Very cool!!! Thanks

[feldpost 58]

Hi,

Absolutely great!
Something new to learn all the time, many thanks for showing - and for explanatory photographs and historical input.
This is what makes the forum so good at times!

Many thanks,

John.

[Wood]

Why aye man.

Pete

[Chris Lee]

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