Russia, Imperial. A 1771 Table Medal For Count Orlov’s Rescue Of Moscow, By Georg Christian Waechter Newly Listed with twisted gold wires wound

with twisted gold wires wound tightly from the knot-shaped gilt bronze to the crossguard

1957 version

along with a magazine article with photograph illustrating the aftermath of the Warrenpoint bomb attack by the terrorist Irish National Liberation Army on August 27

(Dienstauszeichnung Reichsarbeitsdienst IV

where he was tor remain for the next month

Russia, Imperial. A 1771 Table Medal For Count Orlov’s Rescue Of Moscow, By Georg Christian Waechter Newly Listed with twisted gold wires woundConstructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a raised and leftward facing bust of Count Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov in high relief and exceptional detail, circumscribed by name and title in Russian Cyrillic, the reverse bearing a raised depiction of Orlov in a Roman style uniform and mounted on a horse, superimposed over a detailed Moscow skyline (symbolizing Orlovs successful initiatives to quell the plague and civil unrest which had gripped the city),