Public & LIVE Bid Auction #511

An interesting well made old fundraising badge from the 1920s, with needle pin. Approx. 3x4 cm. Machine embroidered in a thin pressed metal framework. Maker marked Ges Gesch. Kruse & Sohne. In very good condition for age. This was produced for The Zeppelin-Eckener Spende (Zeppelin Eckener Fund): To finance LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, Eckener and his fellow Zeppelin officers traveled throughout Germany giving hundreds of lectures and raising funds for the Zeppelin-Eckener-Spende (the Zeppelin Eckener Fund).  While the Spende raised only 2.5 million of the 7 million marks needed to build LZ-127, with an additional million marks from the government, and financing from its other operations, the Zeppelin Company was able to begin construction.