United Kingdom. A Household Cavalry Badge, C.1880 Auction Archive hollow with horizontal pinback

hollow with horizontal pinback

Class III Wheel on December 15th

partial Melbourne maker's mark on the reverse

in functional and near extremely fine condition

United Kingdom. A Household Cavalry Badge, C.1880 Auction Archive hollow with horizontal pinbackMulti piece construction, in bronze gilt with red and blue enamels, unmarked, illustrating the monogram of Queen Victoria on the centrepiece, surrounded by a garter bearing the inscription "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" (a maxim in the Anglo Norman language, a dialect of Old Norman French spoken by the medieval ruling class in England, meaning "shamed be whoever thinks ill of it", usually translated as "shame on anyone who thinks evil of it"; being the