Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer’s Breast Star, c.1900 Archive affixed to a cardboard support

affixed to a cardboard support

1916 in Moncton

for 8kt Gold)

weighing 31 grams inclusive of its suspension

Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer’s Breast Star, c.1900 Archive affixed to a cardboard support(Imperial Ordem da Rosa). Instituted October 17, 1829 by Dom Pedro I. In silver gilt, a six armed white enamelled cross with ball finials, affixed to a solid multi rayed gilded plate with three pink enamelled roses on green enamelled laurels in each quadrant creating a wreath, the obverse medallion in Gold presents the hand chiselled medallion of Pedro I, surrounded by a blue enamelled ring with the inscription AMOR E FIDELIDADE (Love and Fidelity),