France, Napoleonic Kingdom. An Order Of St. Louis In Gold, Knight, C.1810 Auction 73mm(height)

73mm(height)

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and is maker marked underneath a celluloid maker’s diamond with the details of Robert Lubstein of Berlin

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France, Napoleonic Kingdom. An Order Of St. Louis In Gold, Knight, C.1810 Auction 73mm(height)(Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint Louis) Instituted 1693. In Gold, consisting a white enameled Maltese cross, obverse centre presenting a portrait of Saint Louis surrounded by the motto LUD(OVICUS) M(AGNUS) IN(STITUIT) 1693, ("Louis the Great instituted it in 1693"), reverse ceentre Gold a sword interlaced with a laurel crown and a white sash with the inscription BELL(ICAE) VIRTUTIS PRAEM(IUM) ("reward of wartime valour"), fleur de lys having been