Vatican, Papal State. An Order of Gregory, Commander Buy Now with a gilt wreath featuring

with a gilt wreath featuring wheat and corn in each quadrant

23mm (w) x 87

showing Starzecki and his comrades in uniform

constructed of bronze and multicoloured enamels

His father was a Navy artificer

Vatican, Papal State. An Order of Gregory, Commander Buy Now with a gilt wreath featuring(Ordine di San Gregorio Magno). Instituted September 1 1831. A finely manufactured badge in silver gilt, presenting a red enamelled Maltese Cross with ball finials and a hand etched frame, with the central medallion featuring a blue enamelled field with a superimposed bust of St. Gregory, surrounded in a ring inscribed S GREGORTUS MAGNUS, the reverse features the inscription PRO DEO ET PRINCIPE (For God and Ruler) on a blue enamelled field, with