Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Newly Listed and with a raised Prussian

and with a raised Prussian crown on the upper arm

measuring 76mm x 76mm

A Wehrpaß note

some soiling is evident to the document

One of a kind

Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer's Star, C.1950 Newly Listed and with a raised Prussian(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