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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 78

Zeppelin Memorabilia A brass or copper medal, 1 1/8 in. (30mm) diameter, the obverse bearing an image of Graf Zeppelin, within a circle inscribed GRAF FERD. V. ZEPPELIN GEB. 1838, the reverse with a Zeppelin over Lake Constanz and GLÜCK AB! GUT LAND! 1908; a flown postcard bearing Frankfurt-am-Main postmark, and photograph of the "Graf Zeppelin" airship at its moorings; a stamped postcard with Hamburg postmark and photograph of an un-named Zeppelin landing at Hamburg; a stamped post card (postmark (?) FRIEDRICHSHAFEN) with photograph of a similar Zeppelin over a lake; an unstamped postcard with a dramatic photograph of the shredded Zeppelin II draped along the side of a railway-cutting, having narrowly missed a large hotel on a hilltop; a copper-coloured medallion, approximately 11/2 in. (40mm) diameter, the obverse depicting the crashed Zeppelin II, the reverse inscribed ZUR ERINNERUNG AN DIE STRANDUNG DES ZEPPELIN II AM 25 APRIL 1910 AUF DEM WEBERSBERG BEI WEILBURG AN DER LAHN; a medallion of identical pattern, in white metal; four souvenir picture postcards variously entitled Air Raid on COLCHESTER Feb 21st 1915, Zeppelin Visit to Blyth, 14th April 1915, Visit of the Zeppelin to Cramlington 14th April 1915 and Zeppelin Raid as seen at (the location left blank, presumably to be completed by the sender); and a small gilding-metal stick-pin in the form of a Zeppelin superimposed on a spoked wheel (12) Estimate £ 150-200 The crashed Zeppelin shown in one of these postcards was LZ5. This airship had an accident-prone career, including being downed as a result of a collision with a pear-tree in the course of a race from Friedrichshafen, on the Swiss border, to Berling. The postcard shows the aftermath of an incident at Weilburg in 1910, when it drifted out of control into the side of the hill.

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£200