Russia, Imperial. An 1898 Table Medal For The St. Petersburg Exhibition Of Handicrafts Auction A very well-preserved first edition

A very well-preserved first edition of “Modern Shot Guns”

with a curved and protruding handle

which the medals were originally shipped in

underside of the sweatband at the front stamped in black ink with the "Neudammer Hutfabrik A

"Queen's University Highlanders"

Russia, Imperial. An 1898 Table Medal For The St. Petersburg Exhibition Of Handicrafts Auction A very well-preserved first editionConstructed of silvered bronze, the obverse bearing a central wreathed Geneva Cross, circumscribed by a Russian Cyrillic inscription indicating that the medal was issued to participants in the 1898 St. Petersburg Exhibitions of Artisans and Craftsmen, the reverse bearing raised rectangular plaques overlaid by detailed scenes of St. Petersburg, topped by the citys coat of arms and flanked by a laurel wreath, unmarked, measuring 50. 36 mm in diameter,