✅ SOLVED Weird Decorative Pin

[nkellam22]

I found this object in a field in Luxembourg (A small country that borders France, Germany and Belgium.)
I have found items dating back to the 1600s at the site but most of my finds are from around 1800-1920.
There is a lot of writing on the pin but most is illegible except for a few letters here and there.
Was hoping to get any info on what it represents and possibly a date range.

Thank You

 

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[Mud Hut]

It looks like most is legible when you enlarge the image to the max.

 

[Mackaydon]

Has something to do with a gymnastic event in Luxembourg.
Don.......

 

[nkellam22]

What makes you say it has to do with gymnastics

 

[diggingthe1]

Looks like 1909 when the world artistic gymnastics event took place. Don nailed it!

 

[diggingthe1]

What makes you say it has to do with gymnastics

You can read gymnastics on the second word from the bottom. The date is on the lower left. You should be able to maybe clean it a little better.

 

[nkellam22]

Wow, thanks for the info.
I wonder what the badge was meant for exactly

 

[namxat]

Has something to do with a gymnastic event in Luxembourg.
Don.......

Either that, or its a badge for scholarly overachievement or something. Gymnasium is the highest form of school in Germany, I could imagine that this word was used in Luxembourg, too. (Luxembourg being a weird but lovely cross-over of German and French culture). Normally the french would use Lycee for this type of school.

I mean to read a faint "international" after concourse, if so its really gymanstics, since international school rating were not really a thing in 1909.


Greets

Namxat

 

[DCMatt]

X ? ? FETE Federale
? ? ? Tournoi
Concours International
de Gymnastique

I think it is a participation pin for a gymnastics event.

Perhaps something similar to this event:

 

[DCMatt]

Here is one from 1909.

 

[nkellam22]

Wow, thanks a lot for the information everyone

 

[Mackaydon]

I believe 'concours' means competition; that would figure.
Don......