Description

Researched Soviet Order of the Red Banner #10534

Reissue/ Victory Parade Issue

To Lt. Colonel Ivan Alekseevich Kirenyshev (Иван Алексеевич Киренышев)

Awarded for feats during the Winter War against Finnland!

Made of solid silver and enamels. Measures 46.17 mm in height, including its eyelet and 37.92 mm in width. It weighs 25.1 gram. The reissue serial number and the mint mark Monetni Dvor are located at the 6 o’clock position of its reverse.

This order of the Red Banner is in an excellent, well above average condition. The details are crisp and the enamel is problem free with only a small superficial chip underneath the ‘О’
in Соединяйтесь. Most gold plating is present and its connection ring has been cut. The double layer steel suspension is time period to the award.

Reissue awards were given by the Soviet Government to a recipient, as a replacement piece, in exchange for the same order or medal of an earlier type which was no longer authorized for awarding by new regulations. The new reissue piece retains the serial number from the original award piece. Many early suspension or screwback awards were exchanged for the new type of award, particularly during the period immediately following the end of the Great Patriotic War. During the June 1945 Victory Parade in Moscow following the defeat of Germany in World War Two, soldiers participating in the Parade were expected to have the latest type of award on their uniforms and undoubtedly many were exchanged for that parade. These pieces are extremely rare.