Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Hold Hoffmeister

Hoffmeister

James Nunn Bales of Westmount

He was a veteran of the First War

He arrived at the Canadian Artillery Pool on April 11th

the belt measuring 48 mm x 1

Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Hold Hoffmeister(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. A finely toned eight pointed star in silver, each arm composed of a cluster of five individual faceted rays of extending lengths, obverse presenting an enamelled white Maltese Cross in silver gilt, with multiple individual rays in each quadrant creating an illusion of a square, obverse centre featuring a detailed silver gilt portrait of St. Sylvester on an enamelled blue background, surrounded by a gilt