Orders, Decorations and Medals

France, Third Republic, Legion of Honour, Commander’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Arthus Bertrand, Paris case of issue, damage to reverse blue enamel, good very fine £120-160

Sold with original bestowal document conferring the Legion of Honour, Commander, to ‘Lord Hindley .... Directeur de la Banque d’Angleterre’, dated 1 June 1939. together with a letter from the French Embassy, dated 8 August 1939, with translation, ‘... The French Government was anxious to recognise officially the great services which you have rendered to the Franco-British economic collaboration on which our public administrations as well as our most important coal firms have always had reason to congratulate themselves. ...’