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4 WW1 celluloid matchbox holders. Produced to commemorate the first Zeppelin to be shot down over
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4 WW1 celluloid matchbox holders. Produced to commemorate the first Zeppelin to be shot down over England, by Lt. William Robinson V.C. 3 September 1916. Each with alternative portrait of Robinson, his RFC and regimental badge, Zeppelin caught by search lights, falling in flames and advertising panel with his name in detail. A similar matchbox holder recording German atrocities with a portrait of Nurse Edith Cavell, pictures of the SS Lusitania and Persia and Zeppelin bombing London with text ‘I ask you to make good these sacrifices’. 2 hand engraved alloy holders, one with ‘Zep L.48’, picture of the Zeppelin and two attacking bi-planes. And another with ‘GS R.100’. QGC-GC some wear/stains.
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4 WW1 celluloid matchbox holders. Produced to commemorate the first Zeppelin to be shot down over England, by Lt. William Robinson V.C. 3 September 1916. Each with alternative portrait of Robinson, his RFC and regimental badge, Zeppelin caught by search lights, falling in flames and advertising panel with his name in detail. A similar matchbox holder recording German atrocities with a portrait of Nurse Edith Cavell, pictures of the SS Lusitania and Persia and Zeppelin bombing London with text ‘I ask you to make good these sacrifices’. 2 hand engraved alloy holders, one with ‘Zep L.48’, picture of the Zeppelin and two attacking bi-planes. And another with ‘GS R.100’. QGC-GC some wear/stains.
The David Kirch Collection of Zeppelin Memorabilia - Part 1
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BN7 2NJ
United Kingdom
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