439, Lot: 776. Estimate $150. Sold for $295. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. WINDSOR. Iron Medal (55mm, 66.64 g, 12h). The Sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. British copy issued by Gordon Selfridge, after K. Goetz. Dated 5 May 1915. KEINE BANN WARE! (no contraband!), the Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; in five lines in exergue, DER GROSSDAMPFER/=LUSITANIA=/DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES/TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/5 MAY 1915 (the liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine) / skeleton (as Death) standing left within ticket booth marked CUNA[RD]/LINIE and CUNARD (the Cunard Line, owners of the ship) above and to right, and FAHRKARTEN/AUSGABE (ticket office) below; to left, queue of passangers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (U-Boat danger). Burns, Commemoration 2a1BHM –; Eimer 1941Ab; cf. Kienast 156 (for prototype). EF. Includes original box and propaganda leaflet. Very rare.