Russia, Imperial. An 1873 Commemorative Medallion For The Dedication Of The Catherine The Great Monument In St. Petersburg United Republic of Footnote: Charles Martin Knack was

Footnote: Charles Martin Knack was born on July 10

The order was created in 1886 by Emperor Dong Khanh as a civil and military award and was also awarded by French Colonial government

with crossed swords between the arms of the cross and a circular raised border of oak leaves with a raised mobile swastika in the center

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the spine perforated with six holes reinforced with magnetic metal grommets through which is looped a drawstring to securely maintain the album’s structure

Russia, Imperial. An 1873 Commemorative Medallion For The Dedication Of The Catherine The Great Monument In St. Petersburg United Republic of Footnote: Charles Martin Knack wasConstructed of a silvered zink alloy, the obverse bearing a central raised depiction of the Catherine the Great Monument in Ostrovsky Square in St. Petersburg, circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic dedication from Tsar Alexander II, the reverse bearing a Cyrillic dedication and date of 1873, unmarked, measuring 36 mm in diameter, in near extremely fine condition.