RUSSIAN BADGE MILITARY DISTRICT+OWNERS PHOTO

RUSSIAN BADGE MILITARY DISTRICT+OWNERS PHOTO
Russian Imperial Badge of Guards Military Headquarters and St. Petersburg Military District + Owners PHOTO. Silver star of St. Andrew on which there is the combined cypher of the Emperors Alexander I (silver) and Nicholas II (gold) beneath the gold Imperial crown.
On the horizontal rays of the star are the gold dates - 1812 - and - 1912.
The number is engraved on the reverse of the badge - 84.
For sale there is also the photo of owners this badge - Kostilev Sergey, April 1914.
ESTIMATE PRICE: $8000 - $9000.
REFERENCE: V.Kempf. Regimental Badges of Imperial Russia, item 6.2.10, R4, price in VF condition is $18.000 - please see the screenshot (CATALOGUE is selling on lot #1000). Great potential investment !!
HISTORY of sales: Russian Auction House Kabinet on auktion 4, lot 215, 2008.
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WIKIPEDIA: the Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of more than 900,000 regular soldiers and nearly 250,000 irregulars (mostly Cossacks). the last living veteran of the Russian Imperial Army was Ukrainian supercentenarian Mikhail Krichevsky, who died in 2008.