International. A Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, Knight Commander, c.1965

Item #W5462

$220

Insignia in bronze gilt with green and white enamels, mounted to a bronze gilt eight-pointed star base, measuring 88.5 mm (w) x 88.2 mm (h), vertical pinback flanked by dual prongs, crazing evident in the white enamels on the tip of the right arm at both 3 o'clock and 6 o'clock, near extremely fine.

Footnote: The Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem was a Catholic military order founded by crusaders around 1119 at a leper hospital in Jerusalem, Kingdom of Jerusalem, whose care became its original purpose, named after patron saint Lazarus.