Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Hold Badge in silvered feinzink

Badge in silvered feinzink

and Thirty Years Long Service Medal

236 medals in total were awarded

suspended by original breast ribbon with pinback

steel blue needle floats on a red jewelled bearing

Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Hold Badge in silvered feinzinkIn 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