Italy, Kingdom. An Order of St. Lazarus, Grand Officer’s Set by Cravanzola, c.1900 GTRexclude Field gray wool backing

Field gray wool backing

similarly featuring brief biographies of hundreds of recipients of the Knight’s Cross and its higher grades

As the senior Allied officer in four successive Japanese prisoner of war camps

Instituted in 1874

Italy, Kingdom. An Order of St. Lazarus, Grand Officer’s Set by Cravanzola, c.1900 GTRexclude Field gray wool backing(Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro). Instituted in 1434. A Grand Officers Set, consisting of an 18 kt Gold neck badge, a white enamelled shamrock cross with the arms of a green rays of a Maltese cross in each quadrant, the reverse mirrors the obverse, surmounted by a large hollow Gold crown, worn on a full length green neck ribbon, measures 53. 67 mm (w) x 85. 08 mm (h), weighs 26. 27 grams, enamel chips on white shamrock, ribbon missing tie at one