Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Medals of the Axis, Germany, The Loss of the Zeppelin L-19, Iron Medal, 1916, by Karl Goetz (1875-1950), the crew cling to the partly submerged Zeppelin, waving for help, rev legend in six lines between eye of Providence and scales, FLUCH DEN BRITTEN ..., 57mm (Kienast 174; Frank 1443; Jones, Dance of Death, fig 30). Extremely fine.
The Zeppelin L-19 was one of a fleet of airships returning from a bombing raid on Burton-on-Trent, Birmingham and Tipton (where she destroyed a pub). Her crew of 16 (some records say more) survived when she crashed into the North Sea and her distress flares were seen by a British trawler, the King Stephen, but the rescue was abandoned when they realised that their crew of nine men, all unarmed, was out-numbered and they feared they would be overpowered and taken to Hamburg as a prize.
Estimate: £100-150
The Zeppelin L-19 was one of a fleet of airships returning from a bombing raid on Burton-on-Trent, Birmingham and Tipton (where she destroyed a pub). Her crew of 16 (some records say more) survived when she crashed into the North Sea and her distress flares were seen by a British trawler, the King Stephen, but the rescue was abandoned when they realised that their crew of nine men, all unarmed, was out-numbered and they feared they would be overpowered and taken to Hamburg as a prize.
Estimate: £100-150