Russia, Kingdom. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class, Type II, c. 1900 by Albert Keibel Hold surface wear and discoloration to

surface wear and discoloration to reverse

the interior retaining a fully-intact Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) label bearing a maker’s code of “A4/21” and a secondary code of “108634”

Footnote: The Order of Merit is a Portuguese Honourific Order of civil merit

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (800180) with the 134th Infantry Battalion "48th Highlanders"

Russia, Kingdom. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class, Type II, c. 1900 by Albert Keibel Hold surface wear and discoloration to( ). Instituted in 1765 in Poland and adopted in 1831 as an Imperial Russian Order. An 18kt Gold Maltese Cross with ball finials and fans along the outer edges of the arms and with small gilded Russian Imperial eagles in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a hand painted set of SS lettering surrounded by a green enameled laurel wreath, the reverse with a matching hand painted white