Vatican. An Order Of The Christ, Grand Cross, By Albert Bacqueville, C.1895 Newly Listed 60 mm (w) x 70

60 mm (w) x 70

marked stylized "A" (for maker Assmann)

exhibiting very light use

" n the reverse

Vatican. An Order Of The Christ, Grand Cross, By Albert Bacqueville, C.1895 Newly Listed 60 mm (w) x 70Of fine French manufacture, consisting of a large red enameled Maltese cross set in silver, hallmarked on integral ball suspension French hallmark denoting . 800 silver purity between 1838 1962, marked by makers mark of Bacqueville, Albert, Paris (A over B with Ship), a known manufacturer of the similarly styled Portuguese Military Order of the Christ, measuring 31 mm (w) x 56 mm (h inclusive of horizontally pierced ball suspension), on original