Vatican, Papal States. An Order Of St. Sylvester In Gold, Knight C.1855 Buy Now in silver gilt with well

in silver gilt with well executed green and white enameling

overlapping horizontal “U” shaped closure panel with a single

Invitation: 4 pp

along with two tiny holes above the left earpiece

Vatican, Papal States. An Order Of St. Sylvester In Gold, Knight C.1855 Buy Now in silver gilt with well(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. 1841 1870 issue. An early example in Gold, possibly of French manufacture, consisting of an enameled white Maltese Cross, with a rotating spur on the 6 oclock arm, featuring clusters of Gold rays in each quadrant, obverse centre exhibiting a superposed Gold portrait of St. Sylvestre on an enameled blue field, surrounded by the inscription SANC. SILVESTER P. M., plain reverse with central medallion