France, I Empire. A Napoleon Bonaparte Sitting Upon A Horse Statuette Auction For Twenty-Five Year’s Service

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the reverse with both set of butterfly-style attachment prongs intact

The waist area is lined with a 115 mm wide vertically striped rayon panel

the badge surmounted by a crown bearing three glass stones in its base and placed above a flowing ribbon banner

Mercian Regiment

France, I Empire. A Napoleon Bonaparte Sitting Upon A Horse Statuette Auction For Twenty-Five Year’s ServiceIn patinated pewter, with gold coloured highlights on the saddle and harness on the horse, multi piece construction, twentieth century manufactured, illustrating Napoleon Bonaparte sitting upon a horse, his hat worn in the traditional "en bataille" style (that is, with the corns parallel to the shoulders, while most of his officers wore their hats "en colonne", that is, perpendicular to the shoulders), with a sword at his left hip, the horse in a