Russia, Imperial. An 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition Table Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with pentagonal red

with pentagonal red

Coast Artillery Company

maker marked “DESCHLER

The cap measures approximately 242 mm (w) x 265 mm (l) x 165 mm (h)

Russia, Imperial. An 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition Table Medal consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac with pentagonal redConstructed of bronze, the obverse bearing a central raised Romanov imperial eagle clutching an orb and sceptre, circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription indicating that the medal was issued to commemorate the 1867 Russian Ethnographic Exhibition, the reverse bearing an inscription indicating that the medal was instituted in 1863 for recognition of prize winning participants in the event, unmarked, measuring 61. 60 mm in diameter, in extremely