Indian Order of Merit, 1st Class, Reward of Valour, 1837-1912 issue, gold and enamels, with silver-gilt suspension and gold three-pronged ribbon buckle, the reverse officially engraved ‘1st Class Order of Merit’, nearly extremely fine and very rare £1000-1200

See Colour Plate IV

Only 42 awards of the Indian Order of Merit 1st Class were made in the period 1837-1912.