Philippines, Republic. An Ancient Order Of Sikatuna, Grand Cross (Datu) Breast Badge Auction Archive since its appearance in 1932

since its appearance in 1932

In its case of issue

a grave with a cross projecting from it in front of him and a stone cairn behind

signed in black permanent maker

marked 37 mm in diameter

Philippines, Republic. An Ancient Order Of Sikatuna, Grand Cross (Datu) Breast Badge Auction Archive since its appearance in 1932(Orden ni Sikatuna), Instituted in 1953. Three piece construction, in silver gilt with red, white, ultramarine blue and dark blue enamels, in the shape of a Maltese cross with a sea lion emerging from the waves between the four arms of the cross, the centrepiece illustrating two arms, one gauntleted in European style and the other in tortoiseshell mail, both of which hold daggers that drop blood into a cup resting upon a treaty parchment scroll,