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Vatican, City State. An Order of Saint Sylvester & the Golden Militia, Livery Collar, c.1895

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Vatican, City State. An Order of Saint Sylvester & the Golden Militia, Livery Collar, c.1895

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Vatican, City State. An Order of Saint Sylvester & the Golden Militia, Livery Collar, c.1895

Type II. (1880-1905 Issue); Military Division, Collar badge in silver gilt with blue and white enamels, gold centre piece on the obverse, measuring 41.5 mm (w) x 45.8 mm (h), the badge suspended from a bronze gilt collar chain consisting of a trophy of arms in the centre of the chain, with an upward-pointing hook on its reverse to support the collar badge, the chain incorporating seventeen 30 mm (w) x 35 mm (h) insignia, each of which has an ornate capped dual framed column on either side, eight of the insignias with a Chi-Rho christogram symbol between the columns, the other nine insignias with an eight-sided star between the columns, each of the insignia with two loops on either end and linked together via two single chain links to a central five-petalled flower icon, the chain measuring approximately 990 mm in length. Intact enamels on the badge, extremely fine.

Footnote: The Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Sylvester Pope and Martyr, also referred to as the Sylvestrine Order, or the Pontifical Order of Pope Saint Sylvester, is one of five Orders of Knighthood awarded directly by the Pope as Supreme Pontiff and head of the Catholic Church and as the Head of State of Vatican City.