Russia, Kingdom. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class, Type II, c. 1900 by Albert Keibel Hold Footnote: The Order of Merit

Footnote: The Order of Merit is a Portuguese Honourific Order of civil merit

surface wear and discoloration to reverse

5 mm x 16 mm)

WWII Calgary Regiment (Tank) Cap Badge - Four-piece construction

moderately worn

Russia, Kingdom. An Order of St. Stanislaus, II Class, Type II, c. 1900 by Albert Keibel Hold Footnote: The Order of Merit( ). Instituted in 1765 in Poland and adopted in 1831 as an Imperial Russian Order. An 18kt Gold Maltese Cross with ball finials and fans along the outer edges of the arms and with small gilded Russian Imperial eagles in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the obverse with a central white enameled medallion bearing a hand painted set of SS lettering surrounded by a green enameled laurel wreath, the reverse with a matching hand painted white