RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BADGE 77th TENGA INFANTRY REGIMENT, 1911
The Russian Imperial badge of the 77th Tenga Infantry Regiment is an extremely collectible item associated with Nicholas II. It features a gold half wreath of laurel and oak branches intertwined with a gold St. George ribbon. At the center of the shield is a silver oval bas-relief portraying Arkhip Osipov's attack on the Mikhailovsky battlements in 1840. Below the shield is the gold Imperial crown with gold ribbons falling from it and a gold inscription. In the upper parts of the shield, you can see the gold raised dates '1700' and '1900', as well as the gold cyphers of the Emperors Peter I and Nicholas II.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $500 - $1,500.
REFERENCE: V.Kempf. Regimental Badges of Imperial Russia, item 1.5.70.60, R3, price in VF condition is $1,600 - please see the screenshot (The catalog is selling lot 787001).
On the auction Gelos in Moscow in 2005 (17 years ago) the same badge was sold for $1,800
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago, on Russian auction the same badge was estimated up to $4,400 - please refer to the screenshot for details.
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WIKIPEDIA: The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). The last living veteran of the Russian Imperial Army was Ukrainian supercentenarian Mikhail Krichevsky, who died in 2008.

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