Hans Schwegerle 1915
∙FERDINAND∙GRAF∙VON∙ZEPPELIN∙ (Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin). Cast bronze, light brown patina, 63.5 mm, 84.6 g. Edge-punch CPOELLATH — SCHROBENH. Vorzüglich (extremely fine), small greenish spot on reverse upper left. Rare.
Obverse: Three-quarter head and neck profile to right; legend upper edge; laurel garland lower edge; artist's signature H Schwegerle under neckline of bust.
Reverse: Over calotte of earth showing northern Europe, floats Zeppelin dirigible from right to left across center field; above, German Imperial Eagle (
Reichsadler); below airship, year-dates 1914 — 1915.
Cf: Bernhart, Max. 1915. Kriegsmedaillen bayerischer Künstler, pl. XIX: 96, 97.
Cf: Schulman. 1916, La Guerre Européenne, Catalogue LXV, p. 77, no. 770.
Cf: Kaiser, Hans. 1998. Medaillen, Plaketten, Abzeichen der deutschen Luftfahrt. Strothotte, p. 115, no. 414 (iron example).
Cf: Hasselmann, Wolfgang. 2000. Hans Schwegerle - Medaillen und Plaketten, p. 135, no. 119.Production records from Carl Poellath, Schrobenhausen, indicate 31 examples were cast in bronze, 6 in iron. Commemorative medal for one year of wartime airship aviation (Hasselmann, p. 135).
Count Zeppelin (1838 - 1917) was, of course, the developer of the airships which bear his name.
