Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Christ with Miniature. Newly Listed in bronze gilt (this is

in bronze gilt (this is a very rare miniature

(Preußischer Roter Adlerorden Bruststern)

bearing a machine-embroidered silver-grey threaded police-style German national eagle clutching a wreathed mobile swastika

45 mm (w) x 60

affixed to a 205 mm-long non-magnetic metal bar with a horizontal pinback and red wool reverse liner

Portugal, Kingdom. A Military Order of Christ with Miniature. Newly Listed in bronze gilt (this is(Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Cristo). Instituted in 1318. In silver gilt and enamels, 67. 6 mm (h) x 43. 2 mm (w), enamel chipping on reverse, very fine. Accompanied by a miniature in silver gilt and enamels, 40. 7 mm (h) x 26 mm (w), extremely fine. Footnote: The Military Order of Christ has a long and convoluted history closely related to Portugal and the Catholic Church. Its origins lie on the dissolution of the Templar Order by Pope Clement V in 1312,