Seven Medal Parts Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Auction the award of his Challenger

the award of his Challenger Medal was made posthumously in December 1895 - prior to the voyage of the Challenger in 1872

In addition to the Military Cross

Mercantile Marine Medal (OLIVER G

Captain (1911)

The attached chain and clip in aluminum

Seven Medal Parts Recovered From The Zimmermann Factory Auction the award of his ChallengerIncludes a German Social Welfare Honour Cross 2nd Class, two crosses without centrepieces, a Bulgarian Merit Order centrepiece, two other centrepieces and an insignia, in bronze, three with white enamels. Fire damaged, fair. Footnote: Zimmermann was a well known German manufacturer of a great variety of awards, German and International, and was destroyed in an allied bombing raid in the early 1940's on Pforzheim, Germany. Sometime in 1990, during