Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III Newly Listed remaining relatively bright and crisp

remaining relatively bright and crisp

This particular example is a very first issue of this Order having a low profile

from Unteroffizier Fritz Streb dated 1943

the reverse stamped with 5632

measuring 138 mm (w) x 88 mm (h) each

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III Newly Listed remaining relatively bright and crisp( ). Constructed of a silver with gilt and enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal aluminum backplate with horizontal pinback,, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet, hammer, and plow, in turn bearing a red enameled star