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Germany, Zum Beginn des ‘U’-Bootkrieges [The Start of Submarine Warfare], 1915, a bronze medal by A. Löwental, bust of von Tirpitz three-quarters left, rev. gott strafe england, Neptune blowing on conch-shell, cliffs of Dover at right, 48mm (Frankenhuis 1426; BDM VII, 560; cf. DNW 39, 550); Gross-Admiral von Tirpitz, 1915, a bronze medal, unsigned [by Mayer & Wilhelm], bust three-quarters left, rev. auf euch ist verlass, crew of submarine train binoculars on a merchant ship, 54mm; Gross-Admiral von Tirpitz, 1916, a bronze medal by B.H. Mayer, bust three-quarters left, rev. warship and submarine, Zeppelin above, 60mm (Frankenhuis 849); Gross-Admiral von Tirpitz, a uniface bronze plaque, unsigned [by L.C. Lauer], bust three-quarters left, 68 x 44mm (Frankenhuis 1059) [4]. Very fine and better (£40-60)

The first medal commemorates the U-Boat ‘blockade’ of Great Britain, begun on 18 February 1915