Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive with red felt backers

with red felt backers

Fascist symbols including fasces

set on a 26 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback

There is a single hook and eye closure on the collar

the obverse bearing a raised and leftward-facing profile of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst

Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive with red felt backersConstructed of bronze with enamels, the obverse bearing two raised female figures symbolizing Marianne (France) and Mother Russia, flanked on the left by a red enameled Geneva Cross and on the right by a raised depiction of St. Isaacs Cathedral, set above an inscription of ST. PETERSBOURG and a date of 1899 in Roman numerals, and below an inscription of EXPOSITION FRANCO RUSSE, the reverse bearing a Russian Cyrillic inscription similarly identifying