Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Archive until May 5

until May 5

In bronze and enamel

who served in the 2nd Michigan Infantry as a disguised man named Franklin

and bearing machine-embroidered red numerals “564”

marked “N&H” and “Ges

Russia, Soviet Union. A Partisan Medal, I Class, Wartime Dated Example Archive until May 5Constructed of silver, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate, the obverse bearing leftward facing profiles of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, situated above a banner bearing a sickle and hammer flanked by initials (USSR), and circumscribed by an inscription of (TO A PARTISAN OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR), the reverse bearing an inscription of (FOR OUR SOVIET MOTHERLAND), topped by a sickle and hammer