Russia, Imperial. A Prize Medal For Diligence And Art From The Ministry Of Trade And Industry consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac button hole for uniform attachment

button hole for uniform attachment

at this stage of the battle

Footnote: The Reverend Leonard Thomas Strong was born in June 1872 and was a very devout man

dated to Berlin on 28 August 1942

inscribed "AUCH IHNEN SCHUTZ UND WOHLFARTH" above and "PADERBORN MIT DEM STAATE VEREINIGT 1802" below

Russia, Imperial. A Prize Medal For Diligence And Art From The Ministry Of Trade And Industry consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac button hole for uniform attachmentConstructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised and leftward facing profile of Tsar Nicholas II, circumscribed by name and title in Russian Cyrillic, the reverse bearing a Cyrillinc inscription of (FOR DILIGENCE AND ART FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY), set within a circular oak leaf wreath, unmarked, measuring 51 mm in diameter, with surface oxidation evident to the edge of the obverse, in better than very fine condition.