Russia, Imperial. A Membership Badge of the Imperial Society of Russian Firemen, Pre-1909 Pattern Archive Stitched onto the cap band

Stitched onto the cap band underneath the eagle is an insignia in the form of a padded black wool backer bearing a hand-embroidered silver aluminum wire tricolour cockade and wreath

both of these attacks being aggressively

surrounded by a ring in green enamel with inscription ЗА ВОЕННА ЗАСЛУГА (For Military Merit)

obverse centre featuring a blue enamelled cross with red and white enamel borders

Russia, Imperial. A Membership Badge of the Imperial Society of Russian Firemen, Pre-1909 Pattern Archive Stitched onto the cap bandConstructed of a silver alloy, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel and oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by a banner bearing initials . ( , or Imperial Society of Russian Firemen), joined together at the centre by the monogram of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, topped by a royal crown, surrounding a pair of crossed axes defaced by a firemans helmet, the reverse with a spring loaded vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, the