Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer, By G. Wolfers, C.1910 United Republic of Sons of Veterans Reserve Medal

Sons of Veterans Reserve Medal 1903 (bronze

a Finnish Civil Guards shoulder board cypher

maker marked “DESCHLER & SOHN

Footnote: The medal was first instituted in December 1801 during the reign of Tsar Alexander I

The honorary member certificate is unnamed

Vatican, Italian Unification. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Officer, By G. Wolfers, C.1910 United Republic of Sons of Veterans Reserve Medal(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. Italian Unification Period. A fine quality set, consisting of a neck badge in silver, featuring an enameled white Maltese Cross, with clusters of individual rays in each quadrant, obverse centre exhibiting a detailed portrait of St. Sylvester in Gold upon a blue enameled field, surrounded by a Gold border with embossed inscription SANC. SILVESTER P. M., reverse centre also in Gold depicting a superposed