World Orders and Decorations 664


France, Republic, Medal for Voluntary Military Service, silver; Medal of Gratitude to Belgium for the Defence of Liege 1914, silver; Medal for Entrepreneurial Industry, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Mlle Maas Eugénie 1948’, for Long and Loyal Service; Medal for the General Trade and Industry Union, silver, the reverse engraved ‘M. Pikus 1983’; Medal of the Industrial Society of the East, silver, the reverse engraved ‘J. Kayser’; Medal of Merit for Philanthropy, bronze; Medal of the Order of the Humanitarian Grand Prix, silver; Medal of Honour for Mutual Aid, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘Condor, Lucien, Employe au Ministére de l’Interieur 1906’; Medal for the Mutual Protection of the Agents of the Railways of France and the Colonies, silvered; Medal of French Mutuality silvered; Medal of Honour of Civil Merit, 1st type, First Class breast badge, gilt, unnamed, with rosette on riband; Medal of Honour of the Ministry of Social Security, First Class breast badge, gilt, reverse engraved ‘G. Cottray 1967’, with rosette on riband; Medal of the French Family (6), silver (hallmarks for Paris Mint), with rosette on riband; Ministry of Public Health (3), silvered, with rosette on riband (2), in card box of issue; bronze; Ministry of Public Health and Population, bronze; Ministry of Hygiene, gilt, with rosette on riband, all unnamed as issued; Medla for Social Insurance, Ministry of Hygiene (2), gilt, unnamed; bronze, the reverse engraved ‘F. Fontenaud’, generally very fine (20)


£100-£140 665


Germany, Prussia, War Merit Medal 1870-71 (2), combatant’s type, bronze, 3 clasps, Beaumont, Metz, Paris; non- combatant’s type, iron; Military Merit Medal for Foreigners, silver, on combatant’s riband; together with a shooting cross, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Schützenverein Dimhausen s.König 1925’; and an unofficial cast bronze Comrade’s medal ‘Ich hatt einen Kameraden’, on bow riband, generally very fine (5)


£60-£80 666 x667 668 Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, good very fine £50-£70


Honduras, Republic, Order of Morazan, Grand Cross sash badge, 66mm including pyramid suspension x 52mm, gilt and enamel, unmarked, on full sash riband, nearly extremely fine


£100-£140 A Sardinian Crimea and Independence of Italy group of seven awarded to Captain Giuseppe Jest


Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Fifth Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Fifth Class breast badge, gold and enamel; Independence Medal, silver medal, by Canzani, with 5 clasps, 1848, 1849, 1859, 1860-61, 1866, Al Valore Militare, bronze medal within outer wreath, the reverse inscribed ‘Passaggio Della Sesia, 21 Maggio 1859, Jest Giuseppe’; Great Britain, Crimea Medal 1854-56, no clasp (Jest Giuseppe Capittano Nel 10d. Fanteria.) contemporarily engraved naming; Ottoman Empire, Turkish Crimea Medal 1855, a slightly later striking, unnamed as issued; France, Second Empire, Italy Campaign Medal 1859, silver medal, by Barre, generally nearly very fine and better (7)


£400-£500 669


Italy, Kingdom, Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, 86mm including crown suspension x 54mm, gold and enamel, with neck riband, in Cravanzola, Rome, case of issue, minor white enamel damage to St. Maurice’s cross, with three white ‘hemispheres’ missing, otherwise very fine


£180-£220 x670 x671 672 Italy, Kingdom, Al Valore Militare, silver (2), both unnamed, good very fine (2) £60-£80


Nigeria, Republic, Nigerian Crisis Medal 1966-70, silvered; National Service Medal 1966-70, bronze (5); Defence Service Medal 1967-70, silvered (7); Medal for the 10th Anniversary of Independence 1963-73, bronze (4), all unnamed as issued, generally nearly extremely fine (17)


£50-£70


Norway, Kingdom, Order of St Olav, 2nd type, Military Division, Commander’s neck badge, by Tostrup, Oslo, 89mm including crown suspension x 62mm, gold and enamel, maker’s name and gold mark to suspension loop, with neck riband, in case of issue, enamel damage to one arm of reverse, otherwise about extremely fine


£500-£700


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