The Portland Collection, Commemorative Medals, Aviation: World War I, Germany, Zeppelin raids over London, large cast bronze medal, 1915, by Franz F. Eue (1888-1937), for Ball, Berlin, bust of Count Zeppelin three-quarters r., GRAF ZEPPELIN, rev. Tower Bridge with bascules raised, two airships above the city, explosions and searchlights beyond, in ex. LUFTANGRIFF AUF LONDON 17.18.8. 1915, 106mm. (Eimer 1944; BDM VII, 275), slight staining to reverse, very fine and rare
After the War Eue emigrated to America in 1926, settling in New York City where he worked freelance for both the Medallic Art Company and Whitehead & Hoag. His most noted medallic work in America was a 1929 medal of Sun Yat Sen, first President of the Republic of China.