temp. WINDSOR. Iron Medal (55mm, 71.20 g, 12h). The Sinking of the S. S. Lusitania. British copy issued by Gordon Selfridge, after K. Goetz. Dated 5 May 1915.

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British Medals, Iron

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temp. WINDSOR. Iron Medal (55mm, 71.20 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) / GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), 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.


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