Giveaway - Lusitania medal WINNER ANNOUNCED
Hussulo
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After winning Hyperion's giveaway I thought it's only fair to do one as well.
This isn't an original Goetz one but a British propaganda piece (spelling is MAY), and since they were made of iron it is very common to find them with some rusting.
It weighs 70.27 grams.
"The Goetz medal attracted so much attention that Lord Newton, who was in charge of Propaganda at the Foreign Office in 1916, decided to exploit the anti-German feelings aroused by it for propaganda purposes and asked department store entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge to reproduce the medal.[105]
The replica medals were produced in an attractive case claiming to be an exact copy of the German medal, and were sold for a shilling apiece. On the cases it was stated that the medals had been distributed in Germany "to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania" and they came with a propaganda leaflet which strongly denounced the Germans and used the medal's incorrect date to claim that the sinking of the Lusitania was premeditated.
The head of the Lusitania Souvenir Medal Committee later estimated that 250,000 were sold, proceeds being given to the Red Cross and St. Dunstan's Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Hostel.[106][107] Unlike the original Goetz medals which were sand-cast from bronze, the British copies were of diecast iron and were of poorer quality."
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
I will pick a winner 9pm GMT Sunday 16th of Jan 2011
To enter simply post in this thread.
This isn't an original Goetz one but a British propaganda piece (spelling is MAY), and since they were made of iron it is very common to find them with some rusting.
It weighs 70.27 grams.
"The Goetz medal attracted so much attention that Lord Newton, who was in charge of Propaganda at the Foreign Office in 1916, decided to exploit the anti-German feelings aroused by it for propaganda purposes and asked department store entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge to reproduce the medal.[105]
The replica medals were produced in an attractive case claiming to be an exact copy of the German medal, and were sold for a shilling apiece. On the cases it was stated that the medals had been distributed in Germany "to commemorate the sinking of the Lusitania" and they came with a propaganda leaflet which strongly denounced the Germans and used the medal's incorrect date to claim that the sinking of the Lusitania was premeditated.
The head of the Lusitania Souvenir Medal Committee later estimated that 250,000 were sold, proceeds being given to the Red Cross and St. Dunstan's Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Hostel.[106][107] Unlike the original Goetz medals which were sand-cast from bronze, the British copies were of diecast iron and were of poorer quality."
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
I will pick a winner 9pm GMT Sunday 16th of Jan 2011
To enter simply post in this thread.
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thank you, Mr.Hussulo
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Congratulations. Please PM me your address and I'll get the medal in the post to you.
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Thanks so much. I have always been fascinated by that medal. I will have to find a neat piece for a giveaway very soon.
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Richard
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