RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BADGE 47th UKRAINSKY INFANTRY REGIMENT
The badge has the form of a Maltese cross and is covered in white enamel. In the center of the cross, you'll find a gold ermine mantle with the cypher of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, complete with the gold Imperial crown. On the cross rays, there are jubilee dates: 1798, 1909, 1898, and 1877. The badge is made of bronze, silver, gilding, and enamel.
CONDITION: In very good condition considering its age, with no visible damage or repairs. For additional information, please refer to the pictures.
PROVENANCE: From a private Russian collector in USA, July 20, 2018.
ESTIMATED PRICE: $700 - $3,000.
REFERENCE: V.Kempf. Regimental Badges of Imperial Russia, Catalogue, 2008, item 1.5.48.20, R4, price in VF condition is $4,500 - please see the screenshot (The catalog is selling lot 787001).
For the past 10 years the same badge sold only once at Dorotheum auction in 2004.
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IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ARMY: 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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