Orders, Decorations and Medals

U.S.S.R., Order of the Badge of Honour, 4th Type breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, reverse inscribed, ‘413706’; Medal for a Veteran of Labour (2) one in card box; Jubilee Medal for the Armed Forces (3), 1918-48; 1918-78; 1918-88; Jubilee Medal for the Great Patriotic War (3), 1945-65; 1945-85; 1945-05; Leningrad Liberation Anniversary Medal 1944-2004 (2) different strikings; Lenin’s Birth Anniversary Medal 1970, this with associated party membership record book; table medals (4) base metals; miscellaneous badges (mostly U.S.S.R.) (34), base metal, most enamelled; uniform insignia (1); Soviet era party membership books (4); award booklets (2) for the Order of the Badge of Honour; another for the Order of the Patriotic War; Soviet passport 1945; Soviet identity book showing service during 1915-17; envelope addressed to ‘T. & T. Vicars, Engineers, London’, sent from Moscow and opened by censors; anniversary card, 1918-58 and two photographs of Soviet servicemen in uniform, sold as found (lot) £120-160

Some of the ‘miscellaneous badges’ with copied identification.