RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BADGE ARTILLERY SCHOOL

RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GRADUATION BADGE of the MICHAEL ARTILLERY SCHOOL IN ST. PETERSBURG
INSTITUTED 07.03.1911. Gold double headed eagle of the Nicholas I period under a gold Imperial crown, holding in its claws two crossing cannons one of steel and another of Bronze.
A silver oxidized grenade is superimposed on the intersection of the cannons. On the wings of the eagle there are the silver monograms of Alexander I on the left and Nicholas II on the right.
In the centre of the badge there is a silver cut of the cannon barrel under a gold Imperial crown decreased breastplate of the school. In the upper part of the cut there are two gold laurel branches.
In the lower part the Inscription made by blue enamel passes: M.Artillery Sch. inside: the cut there is the gold monogram M and the date 1820 the year of the foundation of the school.
A multi piece Bronze gilt badge, 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches.
Imperial eagle with monograms of Alexander I and Nicholas II on its wings, and a crowned medallion with the monogram of the Grand Duke Michail on its breast, is holding two crossed cannons. A flaming grenade laid on the cannons. Condition is VF - XF.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $1500 - $2000.
It is a great INVESTMENT.
HISTORY of sales: On auction Gelos Moscow at auction 34, lot 134 in 2005 the same badge sold for $1400 - 14 years ago !!.
REFERENCE: Patrikeiv/Bojnovich Vol. 1, page 63, #1.4.5.
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WIKIPEDIA: the Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). the last living veteran of the Russian Imperial Army was Ukrainian supercentenarian Mikhail Krichevsky, who died in 2008.