Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Auction Archive Cheshire on February 4th 1871

Cheshire on February 4th 1871

Issued in 1973

Footnote: The Order of the Royal House was instituted in 1935

presents a round disc with Tunisian symbols

the reverse retaining an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label with a maker’s code of “A4/192” and a secondary code of “466064”

Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Auction Archive Cheshire on February 4th 1871Constructed of bronze, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse of the arms joined through the quadrants by the monograms of Tsars Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, bearing a central ribbed Geneva Cross overlaid by a disc featuring a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a raised number 349 (the number of days of the SIege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War), the three and nine oclock arms bearing raised dates 1811