GOETZ: K-188 "America's Peace Objectives" 1917

[Bronzemonger]

K-188 AMERICA’S PEACE OBJECTIVES (Amerikas Friedensziele), 1917, Cast Bronze, 57.6mm, 66.76g., VZ.

[ externes Bild ]

Obverse: Uncle Sam 'manning the rudder' of an armed sailing vessel. In border, "Friedensziele" (Objects of peace).

Reverse: Englishman, shipwrecked, trying to catch a life-buoy marked, "Amerika". In border, "3. Februar 1917".

[petzlaff]

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MEDAL

(regardless the political background that really created this object - 3rd Reich medals are comparable within political and therefore cultural evidence)

Für Kurt Goetz eine sehr interessante frühe Zuwendung zum realen Politikverständnis (was man später leider vermisst).

regards
Stefan