Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Hold 151 (4th Grenadier Regiment 151)

151 (4th Grenadier Regiment 151)

With small gold center

all on a background of an oak leaf wreath tied with a ribbon at the bottom

on top of a barbell

"in Engineering Charge"

Italy, Grand Duchy Of Tuscany. A Rare Order Of Saint Stephen, Knight Set, C.1800 Hold 151 (4th Grenadier Regiment 151)(Sacro Militare Ordine di Santo Stefano Papa e Martire). Instituted 1561. An exceptionally rare and early Knight set, comprising a bronze gilt Maltese cross with smooth red stones in each arm with in delicately scalloped gilt borders, large smooth gilt lillies in each quadrant, a central glass stone presents facets on the obverse with a smooth reverse (the only differentiating feature of the obverse and reverse), an integral ring sits in the knee of