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Electronic Auction 529  14 Dec 2022
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Lot 937

Estimate: 150 USD
Price realized: 400 USD
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GREAT BRITAIN. The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania, 7 May 1915. Iron Medal (55mm, 61.87 g, 12h). British copy issued by Gordon Selfridge, after K. Goetz. Dated 5 May 1915. KEINE BANN WARE! (No contraband!), the Lusitania sinking in heavy seas; DER GROSSDAMPFER/=LUSITANIA=/DURCH EIN DEUTSCHES/TAUCHBOOT VERSENKT/5 MAY 1915 (the liner Lusitania sunk by a German submarine) in five lines in exergue / 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). As made. Includes original box with lid separated and propaganda insert. Rare with the insert.

From the PS Collection of Medals of the Great War.
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