Bavaria, Kingdom. An Exceptionally Rare Military Order of St. George, Grand Cross Breast Star, Published Example c. 1795 GTRexclude EMPEROR AND KING”)

EMPEROR AND KING”)

reverse centre depicting an engraved laurel branch surrounded by the inscription AL MERITO (To Merit) in silver gilt

original ribbon suspended from a hanger inscribed "Seirbis" with pinback

central Russia

37254” (“Factory Number 37254”)

Bavaria, Kingdom. An Exceptionally Rare Military Order of St. George, Grand Cross Breast Star, Published Example c. 1795 GTRexclude EMPEROR AND KING”)(Orden vom heiligen Georg Bruststern zum Grokreuz). Instituted 20 March 1729 by Prince Elector Karl Albrecht (1729 1918 issue; c. 1795 example). Constructed of hand hammered silver, the obverse consisting of a Maltese Cross with pebbled and blue lacquered arms joined through the quadrants by blue and white (substituted with silver base metal) rhombuses, overlaid by a central ribbed medallion bearing a red lacquered St. Georges Cross, the reverse with