United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. Replica Lusitania Medallion Auction Archive III - Vimy Ridge

III - Vimy Ridge

1896 in Brighton

It is plain with the exception of a maker’s mark near the reverse ricasso of “E

suspended from a 20

2nd Class - Gilded tombac

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. Replica Lusitania Medallion Auction Archive III - Vimy RidgeIn 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