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№ 785

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27 February 2019

Hammer Price:
£750

France, Kingdom, July Monarchy 1830-48, Legion of Honour, Chevalier’s breast badge, 64mm including crown suspension x 45mm, silver, gold appliqué, and enamel, significant green enamel damage to wreath, and white enamel damage to tips of points of badge, housed in a fitted glazed display frame, with ivory-style plaque below that reads ‘This Order was found on the Battle Field of Waterloo and given to Lady George Seymour by the Duke of Wellington’, an unusual curio given the dates involved, nearly very fine £140-£180