Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare 1943 Stalin Prize Award Document, Joseph Stalin Signature United Republic of and gold classes

and gold classes

The cover shows the handwritten word “Skizzenbuch” (sketch book)

Officer's Cross: three-piece construction

to include rural working-class men

maker marked "4" (Steinhauer& Lück

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare 1943 Stalin Prize Award Document, Joseph Stalin Signature United Republic of and gold classesA rare award document to a recipient of the Stalin Prize, of multi piece off white card stock construction, the cover page bearing a gilt sickle and hammer intertwined with a laurel branch, the following page decorated with gilt and ink inscriptions indicating that the certificate was issued in 1943 by the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR, followed by an embossed national emblem, award title in gilt Russian Cyrillic, and inscription