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2582
2582
Order of the Red Banner of Labor of Abkhazia SSR.
Award # 1. Gold, silver,
multi-color enamels. Screwback. Magnificent craftsmanship and design, complex
multi-piece construction. The sun and hammer/sickle are made of pure gold!
Massive badge, measuring 46mm in width by 51mm in height. Unpublished in all
known standard references, including Herfurth, A. Kutsenko, and N. Strekalov.
No data available on total number manufactured, but rumored to be awarded only
twice!
Unique
and historically important.
Condition:
Outstanding and apparently unworn. Once in a life-time opportunity
for the advanced collectors only $ 200,000
An Elusive and Previously Unpublished Early Soviet Rarity