United Kingdom. A Lusitania Medallion With Carton Auction 16 mm (w) x 106

16 mm (w) x 106

and a Saxon Merit Medal

mesh backer peeling away at the top exposing the underlying structure

but stayed in Enderta Province in February 1936

on interior with black ink

United Kingdom. A Lusitania Medallion With Carton Auction 16 mm (w) x 106In blackened iron, magnetic, obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to ram