Russia, Imperial. An Order Of St. Stanislaus In Gold, I Class Badge, By Ivan Keibel, C.1870 Auction the obverse bearing a leftward-facing

the obverse bearing a leftward-facing profile of Grand Duke Friedrich II

with an iron core that exhibits no cracking

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Since these early incidents

Footnote: The Order of Civil Merit was established by King Alfonso XII/Alphonso XII on June 25

Russia, Imperial. An Order Of St. Stanislaus In Gold, I Class Badge, By Ivan Keibel, C.1870 Auction the obverse bearing a leftward-facing( ). Instituted 7 May 1765 by Stanislaus II Augustus Pontiakowski. Reinstituted by Tsar Nicholas I in 1832. Of high quality manufacture by the workshop of Ivan Keibel, which was court purveyor from 1836 (until 1910), a superb ball tipped enamelled red Maltese Cross in Gold, adorning by delicate ribbed fans in the knee of each arm, the quadrants featuring detailed Romanov imperial Gold eagles, the obverse with a central enamelled white medallion