Spain, Spanish State. A Medal of the Russian Campaign, with Case, by Diez y Campañia Auction Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel Medal

Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel Medal is an award by the German Institute for Inventions in Nuremburg (Deutsches Institut für Erfindungswesen [de]

92 mm (w) x 41

on long original neck ribbon as worn

a Schaumburg-Lippe Wer Cross

the pinback bearing an illegible maker’s mark

Spain, Spanish State. A Medal of the Russian Campaign, with Case, by Diez y Campañia Auction Footnote: The Rudolf Diesel MedalConstructed of silvered bronze with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon with classic Spanish style clasp and horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of a Spanish national eagle, overlaid by a central 1939 Iron Cross, overlaying a circular laurel leaf wreath topped by a crown, the reverse consisting of a circular chain link wreath, surrounding a depiction of the Novgorod Kremlin above an inscription of RUSIA 1941,