Russia, Soviet Union. A Soviet Armed Forces Medal Bar With Three Awards Auction SCHWERDTNER WIEN" on the inside

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a black and white photograph of his wife Nellie sitting on a seashore rock

Below the ink well is a 24 mm x 202 mm capsule-shaped channel carved along the bottom edge for the holding of a fountain pen

with padded paper wrapper

Footnote: The Norris brothers were the sons of John and Mary Mackenzie Norris of Greenock

Russia, Soviet Union. A Soviet Armed Forces Medal Bar With Three Awards Auction SCHWERDTNER WIEN" on the insideA Soviet Armed Forces Medal Bar with Three Awards Medal for Irreproachable Service in the Armed Forces of the USSR (brass, 32 mm); Jubilee Medal for the Twenty Year Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1945 1965 (brass, 32 mm); and Jubilee Medal for Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR 1918 1968 (brass with red enamels, 37. 2 mm). Lightly soiled original ribbons, mounted to a Soviet style aluminum framed suspension, intact enamels,