Russia, Imperial. A Table Medal The General Pardon Of Prisoners On The Accession Of Empress Elizabeth, By Georg Christian Waechter, 1741 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The ebony painted wooden handle

The ebony painted wooden handle has thirteen individual rows of tightly wound aluminum wire grip wrap

can trace their origins as far back as the middle of the sixteenth century

marker marked "FIRMIN LONDON"

exquisite detail

Russia, Imperial. A Table Medal The General Pardon Of Prisoners On The Accession Of Empress Elizabeth, By Georg Christian Waechter, 1741 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac The ebony painted wooden handleConstructed of silvered zink, the obverse bearing a raised and rightward facing bust of Empress Elizabeth, circumscribed by name and title in Latin, the reverse bearing a central raised depiction of female figure representing the personification of mercy, loosening the chains of a group of prisoners, situated in front of a prison with open doors through which prisoners are exiting, below a Latin inscription of CLEMENTIA AUGUST indicating an imperial