Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, II Class, Type III with Award Booklet Auction Archive by Decree of the seventeenth

by Decree of the seventeenth of April nineteen hundred and twenty / The President of the French Republic conferred to Gray

An alternative de-nazified replacement version of a Luftschutz Ehrenzeichen

with light soiling on the obverse

(Third Period: 1914-1918): Silver with red enamels

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, II Class, Type III with Award Booklet Auction Archive by Decree of the seventeenthConstructed of a silver alloy with multi coloured enamels, the obverse consisting of a five pointed star with red enameled arms, with stylized rays emanating through the background, with a crossed sabre and Mosin Nagant rifle piercing the centrepiece, bearing a central raised sickle and hammer, situated within a white enameled ring bearing an inscription of (PATRIOTIC WAR), the reverse with a central threaded screw post retaining an original