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№ 257 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£1,200

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, G.C.B. (Military) a fine and unusual Georgian Knight Grand Cross embroidered breast star by Lewis, the silver and gilt sequinned body with metal centre in silver, gilt-metal and enamels, circa 1820-30, 93mm diameter, the reverse with maker’s paper roundel ‘Lewis Embroiderer, Laceman & Sword Cutler to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Sussex, No 10 St. James’s St. Masonic Embroidery Neatly Executed’, some old repairs to enamels and minor loss to paper backing, otherwise very fine and scarce £600-800