Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Middle-Isthmus Battle Cross 1939-1940

Middle-Isthmus Battle Cross 1939-1940

The obverse ricasso is maker marked “HIC”

woven in threads

Cross In bronze gilt

LEES & Co 1916" on the reverse

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Middle-Isthmus Battle Cross 1939-1940( ). 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 , situated above a white enameled plaque bearing a numeral 3, surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet,