Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Newly Listed the obverse with white enameled

the obverse with white enameled arms with stylized flame designs

75 mm (w) x 37

The memorial's inscription

After seven and a half weeks at Bear Wood

Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Newly Listed the obverse with white enameled(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. A finely toned eight pointed star in silver, each arm composed of a cluster of five individual faceted rays of extending lengths, obverse presenting an enamelled white Maltese Cross in silver gilt, with multiple individual rays in each quadrant creating an illusion of a square, obverse centre featuring a detailed silver gilt portrait of St. Sylvester on an enamelled blue background, surrounded by a gilt