Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 United Republic of a hand embroidered eagle with

a hand embroidered eagle with outstretched wings

attached to a button marked CTRIA CARDENAL CISNEROS in brass

although in Thyen's book he is acknowledged has having received the 1870 clasp only

Born in 1902 into a Lutheran Protestant family

hallmarked with an eagle's head on the reverse of the integral suspension

Russia, Imperial. A Framed Icon Of Our Lady Of The Sign Of Novgorod, C.1900 United Republic of a hand embroidered eagle withA framed and extremely well preserved icon of Our Lady of the Sign of Novgorod. Constructed of a gessoed and tooled wooden base with egg tempera, the obverse of the icon features a gilded base with an arabesque border, topped at the corners by black discs bearing Greek characters MP Y (Mother of God), surrounding a hand painted image of the Theotokos with hands raised in prayer at the moment of the Annunciation, cloaked in a red veil with a blue