Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Medals of the Axis, Germany, The Zeppelin Raids on London, Silver Medal, 1915, by Fritz Eue, for Ball-Verlag, Berlin, bust of Zeppelin three-quarters right, rev Tower Bridge with Zeppelin in searchlight and another beyond, 34mm, edge stamped SILBER 800 (Zeltz 4089, R2; Jones, Dance of Death, fig 31). Virtually mint state.
The medal commemorates the four Zeppelin raid, 17-18 August 1915. In fact two airships turned back with mechanical problems, the third bombed Ashford in Kent in mistake for Woolwich and the last mistook the Lea Valley reservoirs for the River Thames and dropped its bombs on Walthamstow and Leytonstone. None made it anywhere near to Tower Bridge. Eue emigrated to the USA in 1826.
Estimate: £80-120
The medal commemorates the four Zeppelin raid, 17-18 August 1915. In fact two airships turned back with mechanical problems, the third bombed Ashford in Kent in mistake for Woolwich and the last mistook the Lea Valley reservoirs for the River Thames and dropped its bombs on Walthamstow and Leytonstone. None made it anywhere near to Tower Bridge. Eue emigrated to the USA in 1826.
Estimate: £80-120