Lot 03071

A rare aluminum shield fashioned from a piece of wreckage of the German Zeppelin LZ55/85 mounted on a piece of dark brown/black bakelite. A rather large piece of wreckage, 11.5cm. from top to bottom, and just over 7.5cm. wide – the aluminumsection being decorated in typical period punch embossing and die struck alpha numeric characters “ZEPPELIN LZ 53 SALONICA MAY 5TH 1916”. The reason the number on this piece is LZ53 instead of 55 -ΣΥΝΕΧΙΖΕΤΑΙ–