Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Auction Archive Cheshire on February 4th 1871

Cheshire on February 4th 1871

wearing an HJ Shooting Badge

Issued in 1973

who fought with distinction within Austro-Hungarian Army

the reverse retaining an intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label with a maker’s code of “A4/192” and a secondary code of “466064”

Russia, Imperial. A Badge of the 56th Zhitomir Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich Auction Archive Cheshire on February 4th 1871Constructed of bronze, consisting of a vaulted Cross Patte, the obverse of the arms joined through the quadrants by the monograms of Tsars Alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander III, and Nicholas II, bearing a central ribbed Geneva Cross overlaid by a disc featuring a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a raised number 349 (the number of days of the SIege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War), the three and nine oclock arms bearing raised dates 1811