Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 certificate_of_authenticity light wear and contact mark

light wear and contact mark

40mm (w) x 50

a circular belt buckle with an eagle with outstretched wings clutching a centred wreathed swastika encompassed by a ribbed border

(旭日章 Kyokujitsu-shō)

Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 certificate_of_authenticity light wear and contact mark(Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire). Instituted 1561. An exceptionally rare and early Knight set, comprising a bronze gilt Maltese cross with smooth red stones in each arm with in delicately scalloped gilt borders, large smooth gilt lillies in each quadrant, a central glass stone presents facets on the obverse with a smooth reverse (the only differentiating feature of the obverse and reverse), an integral ring sits in the knee of