A Cunard Line R.m.s. Lusitania Medallion With Box Hold prewar quality

prewar quality

enamels in worn/damaged condition

A 1932-45 German Youth Horse Rider’s Badge by Willy Annetsberger - in bronzed feinzink

1943 and assigned to No

A Cunard Line R.m.s. Lusitania Medallion With Box Hold prewar qualityBlackened 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