early soviet silver badge

  1. History of Badge for the Expedition to Wrangel Island in 1924

    Lying between the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas, the history of Wrangel Island begins in 1824, when Ferdinand von Wrangel investigated reports of land north of the Chukotka Peninsula by the local Chukchi people. Though he never sighted the island, he did see birds flying north and assumed land...
  2. Badge for the Expedition to Wrangel Island in 1924 No. 35

    Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 43.9 × 39.8 mm. Weight 23.39 g. Marked with the Leningrad [ex-St. Petersburg] district assay office in an oval shield [alpha, kokoshnik to the right, 84], a round identification mark and the hallmark of the workshop “МАХ в треугольнике/MAH in a triangular” for the...
  3. Badge for the Expedition to Wrangel Island in 1924 issued to Alatyrtsev Sergey Konstantinovich

    Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 43.7 × 40.2 mm. Weight 19.06 g. Marked with the Leningrad [ex-St. Petersburg] district assay office in an oval shield [alpha, kokoshnik to the right, 84], a round identification mark and the hallmark of the workshop “МАХ в треугольнике/MAH in a triangular” for the...
  4. Badge for the Expedition to Wrangel Island in 1924 No. 68

    Silver, gilt, enamel. Size 43.8 × 40.4 mm. Weight 24.60 g. Marked with the Leningrad [ex-St. Petersburg] district assay office in an oval shield [alpha, kokoshnik to the right, 84], a round identification mark and the hallmark of the workshop “МАХ в треугольнике/MAH in a triangular” for the...
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