Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac purple cloth cover

purple cloth cover

Benin (Dahomey)

Damascus (September 12th))

fine condition with light scuffing and creasing

Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac purple cloth cover(Ordine di San Gregorio Magno). Instituted in 1831. Multi piece construction, in silver gilt with red and blue enamels, each of the eight points of the cross exhibiting a ball finial, surmounted by a wreath in silver gilt with red and green enamels, unmarked, measuring 40. 5 mm (w) x 63. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and loss evident in the green enamels on both sides of the wreath, the enamels on the