Russia, Soviet Union. A Lot Of Eight Medals & Awards Hold a Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia

a Federal Republic North Rhine-Westphalia police shako helmet plate

We tried it out with a piece of cordite and it blew the charge high enough to hit the deck head - as witness the edge mark on the end of the charge itself

obverse illustrating a spread-winged eagle standing upon a block bearing a swastika

The obverse of the blade bears a finely-detailed acid-etched inscription of “DEM GAUSIEGER

born 1862 - died 1948

Russia, Soviet Union. A Lot Of Eight Medals & Awards Hold a Federal Republic North Rhine-WestphaliaJubilee Medal for 50 Years of the Armed Forces 1918 1968 (in brass with red enamels, measuring 37 mm in diameter, original ribbon, mounted to a five sided aluminum suspension with pinback); Jubilee Medal for the 100th Year Anniversary of Lenin's Birth 1870 1970 (in brass, measuring 32 mm in diameter, original ribbon, mounted to a rectangular frame with pinback); Medal for Bravery, Type II (in silver with red enamels, measuring 37 mm in diameter,