Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South, with Award Card Auction Archive 61 mm (w) x 57

61 mm (w) x 57

Footnote: The Winterhilfswerk (WHW = Winter Help Work) was an annual drive by the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (the National Socialist People’s Welfare Organization) to help finance charitable work

circa 1935

including thirteen plates

Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South, with Award Card Auction Archive 61 mm (w) x 57Constructed of gilded brass, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate, unmarked, measuring 32. 33 mm in diameter, accompanied by its original award card, constructed of card stock, the interior bearing a handwritten dedication to Yuri Vasilievich Yandovsky, dated 25 February 1950, measuring 8 cm (w) x 10. 5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.