Auction Catalogue

15 December 2000

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 831

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15 December 2000

Estimate: £1,500–£2,000

Brazil, Officers’ Decoration for Montevideo 1822-23, fashioned entirely in gold, central portrait of Pedro I encircled by legend ‘Voluntarios Reaes D’El Rey’ and wreath of laurels, the reverse ‘Montevideo’ within a wreath of laurels, with straight bar suspension and gold ribbon buckle, extremely fine, apparently unrecorded and of the highest rarity £1500-2000

See Colour Plate IV