Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Auction The reverse bears a Reichszeugmeisterei

The reverse bears a Reichszeugmeisterei (RZM) logo and maker’s code of “M7/13” for Artur Schüttelhöfer

8 mm x 16 mm

A DRK (German Red Cross/Deutsches Rotes Kreuz) membership badge

became very grave

chipping in the blue enamels on both centrepiece rings and chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels

Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Auction The reverse bears a Reichszeugmeisterei(Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire). Instituted 1561. An exceptionally rare and early Knight set, comprising a bronze gilt Maltese cross with smooth red stones in each arm with in delicately scalloped gilt borders, large smooth gilt lillies in each quadrant, a central glass stone presents facets on the obverse with a smooth reverse (the only differentiating feature of the obverse and reverse), an integral ring sits in the knee of