Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame GTRexclude horizontal pinback - lightly bent

horizontal pinback - lightly bent but funcitonal

A Miniature Air Medal

four prongs and paper backer fully intact

measuring 215 mm (w) x 147 mm (h)

and (Alice Edith) Maude (Marsh) Campbell of London

Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame GTRexclude horizontal pinback - lightly bent(Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana). Instituted in 1951. A framed Grand Cross Badge in silver gilt, featuring a white enamel cross with a Goldfive point star in the centre, ball finial at each end of each arm, with eagles in each quadrant, reverse mirrors the obverse, the cross is surmounted by a large crown of the republic, measures 70. 45mm (w) x 94. 60mm (h inclusive of crown suspension and integral ring), on a period full length green and