Description
with a u-shaped bracket affixed to the reverse
which saw a transition to liberal democracy in Portugal
the reverse medallion presents the year 1883 on a white enamelled field
A medal bar for a First World War combatant with postwar Olympic service
at the alleged age of 21 (he was actually 17
United Kingdom. A Sinking of the Lusitania Medallion in Carton Hold with a u-shaped bracket affixedIn magnetic iron, the 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 German