The American Numismatic Society, Dictionary Catalogue of the Library (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1962), plus supplements.
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Peter I. License badge, 1705
Copper disk, 24.1 mm in diameter, 1.7 mm thick. Issued by the regime, it had to be worn (carried) to show that the bearer had paid the necessary tax to wear a beard or mustache. The object is stored in a vault. Also, a document describing the token.
Russian Veterans' Society of the World War, Inc.
Ca. 7 items. Typescript entitled "Information of the Russian (Disabled) Veterans Society of the World War," 5 pp.; 2 letters from the Veterans' Society president Alexander Elshin to Sawyer Mosser, the ANS librarian; a "Declaration" establishing the Order and Cross of the Compassionate Heart, with accompanying illustration; an "Application" for the award of the decorations of the Russian Orders; and a copy of the award certificate of the Order of the Compassionate Heart granted to Elshin, ca. 1933.
