Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, I. Class, Type II, c. 1943 Buy Now hilt has brass fittings with

hilt has brass fittings with loops in tact with double headed eagle (eagle heads have worn away from in-out wear)

joined together through the quadrants by crowned and black-painted Prussian angles with the Gold base visible through the heads

measuring 146 mm (w) x 330 mm (h) x 55

within two outer black circles

605 casualties

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Patriotic War, I. Class, Type II, c. 1943 Buy Now hilt has brass fittings with( Orden Otechestvennoy Voyny). Instituted May 20th, 1942. (c. 1943 issue). Of three piece construction of Gold, silver, and gilded silver, consisting of a red enameled five pointed star with Gold straight rays (denoting I. Class) as well as a crossed saber and Mosin rifle in between the arms of the cross, with a central circular red enamelled medallion bearing a crossed Hammer and Sickle insignia in Gold, surrounded by a white enamelled ring inscribed