Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Christ with Miniature. visually-hidden surrounded by the inscription "WIENERFREIWILLIGE

surrounded by the inscription "WIENERFREIWILLIGE RETTUNGS CESELLSCHAFT" (Vienna Volunteer Rescue Society) and "IX

in silvered bronze and textured red enamels

The bolster acts as a narrow crossguard and houses a ferrule (wraparound band) that bears the Croatian interlace

It provided machine gun support to the 3rd Canadian Division in France and Flanders until the end of the war and disbanded on November 15

after the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937

Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Christ with Miniature. visually-hidden surrounded by the inscription "WIENERFREIWILLIGE(Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Cristo). Instituted in 1318. In silver gilt and enamels, 67. 6 mm (h) x 43. 2 mm (w), enamel chipping on reverse, very fine. Accompanied by a miniature in silver gilt and enamels, 40. 7 mm (h) x 26 mm (w), extremely fine. Footnote: The Military Order of Christ has a long and convoluted history closely related to Portugal and the Catholic Church. Its origins lie on the dissolution of the Templar Order by Pope Clement V in 1312,