ADAM'S - THE HISTORY SALE - APRIL 26TH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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Wednesday 26th April
adapted as a brooch attached to to a Red Cross card and indicating ‘From the first
Zeppelin brought down at Cuffley Essex Sept 3rd 1916’.
€ 400 - 600
The Schütte-Lanz SL - 11 was one of 16 airships taking part in what was then the
biggest raid of the FirstWorldWar. It was the first German airship to be shot down
while bombing England, at Cuffley, Essex by LieutenantWilliam Leefe Robinson. He
was awarded aVictoria Cross for his bravery in action.
The Zeppelin pieces that survived were given to the British Red Cross by H.M.
war office to raise funds for the war effort particularly to aid those who had been
wounded at the front.
The safety-pin brooch cost two shillings and sixpence.They were sold on ‘Our Day’,
an annual national fundraising event, and by November 1916.
OMMEMORATION GLASS
of conical form, wheel engraved inscription to the rim “Dominus loquitor.Arma
Silent. 11.11.11.1918”
The Lord has spoken,The arms are silent” on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day,
of the eleventh month 1918
together with a Queen Elizabeth coronation goblet , engraved and dated to 1953
the base engraved‘Whitefriars No. 698’ (2)
€ 200 - 300
circa 1920s, in three panels handstitched with rope socket machine stitched to one
side.Very good condition. 74cms x 136cms;
together with a Eucharistic Congress 1932, a large blue linen Flag, folded and white
stitched borders and attached rope support, the centre with a stencilled cross in
yellow depicting the 1932 Eucharistic Emblem, approx. 169 x 89cm, some fading
and tearing, w.a.f. (2)
€ 400 - 600