Russia, Imperial. A Riga Polytechnical Institute Graduation Badge, c.1915 Archive Footnote: Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds

Footnote: Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds CC

particularly because of the symbolic value of the fact that he rode every day through the streets of Copenhagen unaccompanied by guards

A Soviet Medal for the Liberation of Prague 1945

You have done most valuable work in Gorakhpur

the image measuring 224 mm (w) x 160 mm (h)

Russia, Imperial. A Riga Polytechnical Institute Graduation Badge, c.1915 Archive Footnote: Lieutenant-General Guy Granville SimondsConstructed of gilded brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf weath, joined together at the bottom by a ribbon defaced by Cyrillic initials ( Riga Polytechnical Institute), surrounding a double headed Imperial Russian eagle clutching an orb and sceptre, in turn bearing national and regional coats of arms, the reverse with a threaded lug retaining an original backplate and nut, unmarked, measuring 45. 54 mm (w) x 56. 98 mm (h),