Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 United Republic of a hand embroidered eagle with

a hand embroidered eagle with outstretched wings

Barthelmy of Ashtabula

including his probationary period)

hallmarked with an eagle's head on the reverse of the integral suspension

By this time he was working in the SS administration

Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 United Republic of a hand embroidered eagle withA framed and extremely well preserved icon of Our Lady of the Sign of Novgorod. Constructed of a gessoed and tooled wooden base with egg tempera, the obverse of the icon features a gilded base with an arabesque border, topped at the corners by black discs bearing Greek characters MP Y (Mother of God), surrounding a hand painted image of the Theotokos with hands raised in prayer at the moment of the Annunciation, cloaked in a red veil with a blue