Germany, World War I, Der Briten Schreck' [Britain's Terror], satirical iron medal, 1916, by Walther Eberbach (1866-1944), Death, as a giant skeleton, helps Zeppelins drop bombs on English ammunition plants, rev. AN LORD CURZON DEN DEUTSCHEN-HASSER 19-16, a bomb dividing the date, 69mm. (Frankenhuis 1500; BDM.VII, 245), extremely fine, rare
Curzon was serving in Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal; he strongly favoured action in Mesopotamia as a way of defeating German ambitions in creating a Muslim revolt in India
(150-200 GBP)