United Kingdom. A Household Cavalry Badge, C.1880 Auction Archive tiny flakes to enamels

tiny flakes to enamels

A certificate for the German Rider’s Badge in Bronze (16 p

hollow with horizontal pinback

obverse centre featuring a superposed bust of Simon Bolivar in silver gilt

United Kingdom. A Household Cavalry Badge, C.1880 Auction Archive tiny flakes to enamelsMulti piece construction, in bronze gilt with red and blue enamels, unmarked, illustrating the monogram of Queen Victoria on the centrepiece, surrounded by a garter bearing the inscription "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" (a maxim in the Anglo Norman language, a dialect of Old Norman French spoken by the medieval ruling class in England, meaning "shamed be whoever thinks ill of it", usually translated as "shame on anyone who thinks evil of it"; being the