The Red Baron

363, Lot: 475. Estimate $100. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Kaiserreich. Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron), freiherr and fighter ace. 1892-1918. AR Medal (37mm, 20.05 g, 12h). On his death. By K. Goetz. Dated 21 April 1918. RITTMEISTER · MANFRED · FRHR · V · RICHTHOFEN, bust facing slightly left, wearing cap, overcoat, and Iron Cross / DER · ROTE · KAMPF FLIEGER, eagle standing left, head raised; to right, winged helmet set on branch bearing coat-of-arms; in background, plinth inscribed with iron cross and 21/APRIL/1918; above, 80 pierced by arrow (the number of his aerial kills). Kienast 288. EF.