Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award Newly Listed with original LDO paper slip

with original LDO paper slip

The interior waistband is in white cotton and is stamped in black ink "18" above "45" on the right side

intact fabric hinge cover

the reverse of the star features a singular pin

5mm (w) x 46

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare Order of the Red Banner, Type III, Wartime-Issued Third Award Newly Listed with original LDO paper slip( ). Constructed of a silver with gilt and enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal aluminum backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , situated above a white enameled plaque bearing a numeral 3, surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet,