Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare 1943 Stalin Prize Award Document, Joseph Stalin Signature Newly Listed overlaid by a stylized banner

overlaid by a stylized banner bearing an engraved inscription of “FÜR TREUE DIENSTE” (“FOR FAITHFUL SERVICE”)

pinned with gilded bronze crowns

each clip with a pebbled upper

a Destroyer Depot Ship based on the Firth of Forth and from which the 8th Destroyer Flotilla served the Grand Fleet

and sun rays

Russia, Soviet Union. A Rare 1943 Stalin Prize Award Document, Joseph Stalin Signature Newly Listed overlaid by a stylized bannerA rare award document to a recipient of the Stalin Prize, of multi piece off white card stock construction, the cover page bearing a gilt sickle and hammer intertwined with a laurel branch, the following page decorated with gilt and ink inscriptions indicating that the certificate was issued in 1943 by the Council of Peoples Commissars of the USSR, followed by an embossed national emblem, award title in gilt Russian Cyrillic, and inscription