five days shy of his seventeenth birthday
the reverse etched with a membership number of “87019” and a maker’s mark of “DESCHLER & SOHN” for the Munich-based firm
especially among the women
exhibiting cluster of three beaded silver rays in each quadrant
inside of a round laurel wreath joined at the bottom by a swastika
Germany, Weimar Republic. A First World Trip Of Airship Graf Zeppelin Medal 1929 Archive five days shy of hisIn bronze, maker marked "PREUSS. STAATSMNZE" (Prussian State Mint) on the edge, obverse illustrating the busts of Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin, Dr. Hugo Eckener and Ludwig Drr, surrounded by the inscription "ZEPPELIN DER SCHPFER ECKENER DER FHRER DRR DER ERBAUER" (Zeppelin the Creator, Eckener the Leader, Drr the Builder), with the engraver's initials at the far right, all within a beaded border, reverse illustrating a view