Russian Red Cross Society Provisional Government Badges made by Eduard /ВД/ workshop

Badges from 1917.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 51 x 33 mm.
Weight 19 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ВД" for Eduard workshop, round mark "female head in a kokoshnik to the right" and St. Petersburg assay office silver mark [alpha, kokoshnik facing right, 84].

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Private collection. Photos courtesy of the owner.

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Badge that belong to Miss Margaret Gorrie who worked in Anglo-Russian Hospital, St. Petersburg.

Margaret Gorrie was appointed to the Anglo-Russian Hospital on 1 November 1915, and terminated her employment there on 10 January 1918. The Anglo-Russian Hospital in St. Petersburg was opened in October 1915 in the Palace of the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich. Organized by the British Red Cross Society and maintained by a British Committee, the hospital was handed over to the Russian Red Cross in 1918.​

 

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 50 x 33 mm.
Weight 19 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ВД" for Eduard workshop, round mark "female head in a kokoshnik to the right" and St. Petersburg assay office silver mark [alpha, kokoshnik facing right, 84]. Note additional technical mark "N".

Collection of Turku Museum Centre.

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Another example of badge with additional "N" mark.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 52 x 33 mm.
Weight 22.2 g.

Marked with maker's mark "ВД" for Eduard workshop and St. Petersburg assay office silver mark [alpha, kokoshnik facing right, 84]. Note additional technical mark "N".

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