Medal
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard box and bronze medal.
Measurements
80 x 80 mm
Order this imageCollection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 793284
Summary
A replica commemorative medal. A British replica of the medal designed and distributed in Germany to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine on May 7th 1915, boxed. Depicts on the obverse the liner sinking, on the reverse Death in the form of a skeleton issues tickets from behind the ticket office counter of the Cunard Line in New York.
Provenance
Part of the Hussey Collection. The contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 2006 by Mrs Elizabeth Hussey.