United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed Provenance - Tammann collection

Provenance - Tammann collection

Civil Commander's Neck Cross

Berlin” and designer marked “Adolf Bock” on the reverse

Lillie Edwards of Toronto

United Kingdom. An Rms Lusitania Propaganda Medal Newly Listed Provenance - Tammann collectionConstructed of magnetic iron, 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