A rectangular silver and cloisonné enamel commemorative plaque engraved with the cruiser Rurik, with a champlevé enamel inscription beneath, the outer frame with squares at the corners decorated with polichrome foliage in the traditional Pan Slavic manner - stamped with the Imperial Warrant mark of Pavel Ovchinnikov, assay mark of Moscow 1890, length 6.5 inches (16.5 cm). The inscription reads: " The 20-gun armored cruiser, whose building by the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg was begun on 12 May 1890, in presence of Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress, Her Majesty the Queen of Greece and His Highness General Admiral Alexei Alexandrovich.” Original fitted case.