Aleksandr Nevskij.

[JensF.]

Thanks to all for your help!!!
Yes, thats a very very nice item, not as huge and heavy as the Service to the Motherland... just in the right size ;)

[new world]

There's no mentioning in the literature of this.

William

[Nota Bene]

William,

I have seen this on T1 and T2 pieces, and was also puzzled by this. So far I couldn't find any answers.

Alexei :confused:

Hate to clean medalls in any way, but found this writing.

[slava1stclass]

meerhexer,

As best I can make it out (and transliterating from the cyrillic), it reads:

Alekseev, V. M.

Alekseev (12 o'clock position in relation to screwpost)

V. (9 o'clock position in relation to screwpost)

M. (3 o'clock position in relation to screwpost)

The rest of the inscription (6 o'clock position) is largely illegible although it appears to include numbers.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

slava1stclass

Thank you, slava !
Always have difficulties with the not printed letters.
The M on the 3 o´clock position is a new hint. I have looked at the order with this in mind again (with daylight now) and found beside the scewpost a small letter "e". There is paralell scratching beginning in this area going up to the name. The first strike of the M is very short and a bit rounded, could it be a "tsch" ? 9 o´clock B, 3 o´clock y, under screwpost 192 e I / VII ?
Don´t know whether this makes sense.

[Nota Bene]

Meerhexer,

Your post did not belong in the Fakes section so I have moved it here.

Looks like "194.. ../XII" December ... 194..

Alexei

Thank you for moving from the Fake section, Alexei ! With all this Nevski trash in ebay I didn´t want to be anticipating.

Again: I hate rubbing on an order. But what I thought that was an "e" turned out to be just a spot. Put out the microskop because what seemed to me like a "2" hadn´t any rounded line on the top.
The large strong vertical line after the 9 under the screwpost is probably not significant for the text in its full length. On its beginning at the top a horizontal line gones to the right. And at 1/3 of length down there is a light rounded line to the right. That makes a " 5 " So the date is 1954.
After that an X I I or V I I . I´m tending to an V because of the accurate handscratching in the name. An X the writer maybe had done with longer lines underneath the crossing point of the lines. But both dates are possilble.
(Please excuse my londwinded english)

Thank you for the ideas. One thought I had about the letters was By, this tsch ,Y and N is difficult for a non cyrillic reader.

Andreas II

PS: Thank you, Art. I love this downsize programm!

[Eugene]

Originally Posted by Dolf

Danny,

I was told that with such high S/N it could have been Awarded in relation to the events in Hungary, back in 56 I believe.
Dolf

It's possible but very unlikely. I have two orders of Nevsky awarded for Hungary both with numbers 48XXX. But exceptions happened quite often

[HuliganRS]

Dolf,

Great piece! and Congrats!

Research is the only real way to tell.

Rusty.