Vatican. An Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit In Gold, V Class Knight , C.1900 GTRexclude with the subject seated and

with the subject seated and wearing a sheepskin hat pinned with a double-headed Romanov eagle

The blade sits securely within the silver-plated upper crossguard

and three three-ribbon Ribbon Bars (Great Britain Distinguished Flying Cross

small amount of surface contact to enamels

the relief of Kimberley

Vatican. An Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit In Gold, V Class Knight , C.1900 GTRexclude with the subject seated and(Ordine di San Gregorio Magno). Instituted in 1831. In Gold with red, blue and green enamels, weighing 14. 8 grams, measuring 43 mm (w) x 59. 2 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath suspension, small indentations on two ball finials on the reverse, intact enamels, lightly soiled original ribbon, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great was established on September 1, 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after