Orders, Decorations and Medals

Germany, Heligoland, ORDER FOR ARTS AND SCIENCE, breast badge in gilt and enamels with original ribbon, good very fine and very rare

Believed to have been instituted by Sir Fitzharding Maxse, K.C.M.G., who was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the island of Heligoland 1868-1881. The medals awarded to Maxse, including a Grand Cross set of this order, were sold in these rooms 12 May 1993.