Russia, Imperial. An Order of St. Anna, III Class Cross, French-Made for White Émigrés c. 1922 GTRexclude Gilt tombac

Gilt tombac

both textbook Dachau examples

50 mm x 150 mm)

The front is completed by a vertical row of five large bronze buttons on the right side

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Russia, Imperial. An Order of St. Anna, III Class Cross, French-Made for White Émigrés c. 1922 GTRexclude Gilt tombac( III ). Instituted 14 February 1735 by Duke Karl Friedrich of Holstein Gottorp. (State issue 1797 1917; c. 1922 migre reissue). Constructed of a gilded alloy with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with red enameled arms, joined through the quadrants by intricate arabesque latticework, the obverse bearing a central enameled medallion overlaid by a hand painted image of St. Anna, situated within a circular gilded ring, the reverse