Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Luxembourg, Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau, Officer’s shoulder badge with crown, 57 x 38mm., silver-gilt and enamel, on bow ribbon, nearly extremely fine £160-200

Attributed to Lady Henriette Alice Abel Smith, D.C.V.O., J.P., Extra Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen.

With original award document appointing Lady Abel Smith C.V.O., Lady-in-Waiting, to the Order of Civil and Military Merit of Adolph of Nassau, Commander with Crown, dated 13 June 1972. Also with a Buckingham Palace ‘Restricted Permission to Wear’ for the Grand Officer class of the Order, dated 16 August 1977.

See lots 800, 826 and 828 for other orders awarded to Lady Henriette Alice Abel Smith.