Breast Badge, 41x31 mm., GOLD, white enameled oval medallion with finely painted, crowned coat of arms within golden wreath tied by a blue riband, polished, slightly convex outer circlet, bearing the engraved and blue enamel-filled inscription “ОТ СУДА И РПОКУРОРСКАГО НАДЗОРА” (from the Supervisor of the Court and the Attorney’s Office), the whole, sided by ornamental “knots”, the upper of which, fitted with round loop and oval suspension ring, the reverse, with pale-blue enameled medallion with an attractive, beaming effect under the translucent enamel, bearing separately-made, cyrillic monogram “ШН” and the ornamented dates “1901” and “1907”.
A beautiful, very rare badge, most probably honouring the period of service of a Judge or an attorney, at the courts of an imperial Russian Oblast’, excellent condition. I RR!