Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Auction measuring 42 mm in width

measuring 42 mm in width x 1

The reverse bears a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker’s code of “M7/13” for Artur Schüttelhöfer

affixed to a magnetic metal backplate with a horizontal pinback and period original ribbon

chipping in the blue enamels on both centrepiece rings and chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels

8 mm x 16 mm

Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Auction measuring 42 mm in width(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