Russia, Imperial. A Studio Photo Of An Imperial Russian Army Officer Auction said to contain the melted

said to contain the melted metal from a nail of the True Cross

measuring 18 mm x 16 mm

1919 at Sydney

the obverse depicts the ruins of a castle and the inscription “N

Russia, Imperial. A Studio Photo Of An Imperial Russian Army Officer Auction said to contain the meltedA studio photo of an Imperial Russian Army Officer, with the subject seated in uniform, wearing an Order of St. Stanislaus with Swords and an Order of St. Vladimir, above a photographers mark of .. (G. B. TRUNOV) with a city mark of (MOSCOW), the reverse with a handwritten Russian Cyrillic inscription, affixed to a card stock backer, measuring 110 mm (w) x 164 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.