An Outstanding Oldenburg House & Merit Order of Duke Peter Frederick Louis Collar Chain

Of the outstanding quality and craftsmanship one would expect from an order of this importance. A well executed and attention to detail collar consisting of eight 26 mm disks in silver gilt with red and green enamels, illustrating the cypher of Peter Friedrich Ludwig (Duke Peter Frederick Louis) in the centre, surrounded by the inscription "EIN GOTT - EIN RECHT - EINE WAHRHEIT" (A God - A Right - A Truth) and six 26 mm disks in silver gilt with green and white enamels, with the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg coat-of-arms in the centre in red, blue and gold-coloured enamels, each of the fourteen disks with large ornate integral links top and bottom, all twelve disks alternating with twelve 29 mm x 49 mm silver gilt crowned cyphers of Peter Friedrich Ludwig, the front of the chain with a large 51.5 mm x 67.5 mm silver gilt crowned cypher of Peter Friedrich August, the back of the chain with a 56.5 mm x 60.5 silver gilt emblem of two side-by-side silver gilt cyphers of Peter Friedrich Ludwig surmounted by a single large crown, each of the disks and cyphers connected by a single link in two locations on both sides, the crowned cypher of Peter Friedrich August at the front with a 15.5 mm x 17.7 mm cluster of six oak leaves and three acorns, with a hook in place on its reverse for the badge that has been lost to time and suspended from the cypher via two strands of large ornate links, the chain measuring approximately 1,080 mm in length, exhibiting a crack in the white enamels on the coat-of-arms of the second disk from the right and chipping in the green enamels on the wreath of the second disk from the left, scattered spotting on the reverse of the disk and cyphers, the chain of very fine quality manufacture, extremely fine condition and rare.