Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III Newly Listed an inscription in Gold on

an inscription in Gold on the blue enamelled garter

remaining relatively bright and crisp

This particular example is a very first issue of this Order having a low profile

from Unteroffizier Fritz Streb dated 1943

62 mm x 109

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type III Newly Listed an inscription in Gold on( ). 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 , surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet, hammer, and plow, in turn bearing a red enameled star