Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Star and Medal for Combat Service, with Award Card United Republic of A very rare medal bar

A very rare medal bar with two very scarce Danzig decorations

8 mm (w) x 5

A fascinating and largely razor-sharp collection of 14 private photographs from the interwar and Second World War period

Footnote: The Stahlhelm (steel helmet)

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Star and Medal for Combat Service, with Award Card United Republic of A very rare medal barAn Order of the Red Star. Type II. Constructed of silver with enamels, consisting of a five pointed star, the obverse with red enamelled arms, bearing a central medallion overlaid by a Red Army soldier in full uniform and clutching a rifle, surrounded by a border bearing a raised Russian Cyrillic inscription of , ! (WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!), joined together at the bottom by initials (USSR), situated above a hammer and sickle the reverse with a