Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive and Empire: 1904-1905 War Medal

and Empire: 1904-1905 War Medal (in bronze gilt

The cap is fully surrounded by fold-down sidewalls

with red felt backers

set on a 26 mm-long zink bar with a horizontal pinback

There is a single hook and eye closure on the collar

Russia, Imperial. An 1899 Table Medal For The Franco-Russian Exhibition In St. Petersburg Archive and Empire: 1904-1905 War MedalConstructed of bronze with enamels, the obverse bearing two raised female figures symbolizing Marianne (France) and Mother Russia, flanked on the left by a red enameled Geneva Cross and on the right by a raised depiction of St. Isaacs Cathedral, set above an inscription of ST. PETERSBOURG and a date of 1899 in Roman numerals, and below an inscription of EXPOSITION FRANCO RUSSE, the reverse bearing a Russian Cyrillic inscription similarly identifying