Description
thirteen maker marked with A
With his promotion to Captain in 1911
for operations in El Alamein
The knife is in an overall better than very fine condition
with another warrior below
Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Auction Archive thirteen maker marked with AIn 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