Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
Collector's Choice June 2021 Auction 22-25 Jun 2021
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Germany - Great Britain - United States. Duo of Cast Iron Medals (2 Pieces), 1915 & 1918/9. ESSENTIALLY AS MADE.
Sinking of the Lusitania, after that by Karl Goetz. For both pieces: Obverse: GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), Death (as a skeleton) 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 passengers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (U-Boat danger); Reverse: The Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; legend in five lines in exergue.
Sinking of the Lusitania, after that by Karl Goetz. For both pieces: Obverse: GESCHAFT UBER ALLES (business above all), Death (as a skeleton) 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 passengers, one of whom reads a newspaper with the headline U/BOO[T]/GEFAH[R] (U-Boat danger); Reverse: The Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; legend in five lines in exergue.
1) British copy. Eimer-1941Ab. Includes original box of issue.
2) American copy by Sandstrom & Mahood. cf. Eimer-1941Ab (for British copy).
Estimate: $100.00- $200.00