Vatican. An Order Of The Christ, Grand Cross, By Albert Bacqueville, C.1895 Newly Listed both with enamel damage

both with enamel damage

At a Proceedings of Discharge Board

marked stylized "A" (for maker Assmann)

and was produced in France between 1930 and the early 1940s

Vatican. An Order Of The Christ, Grand Cross, By Albert Bacqueville, C.1895 Newly Listed both with enamel damageOf fine French manufacture, consisting of a large red enameled Maltese cross set in silver, hallmarked on integral ball suspension French hallmark denoting . 800 silver purity between 1838 1962, marked by makers mark of Bacqueville, Albert, Paris (A over B with Ship), a known manufacturer of the similarly styled Portuguese Military Order of the Christ, measuring 31 mm (w) x 56 mm (h inclusive of horizontally pierced ball suspension), on original