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Auction: 9004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 915

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, A Superb Quality c.1830 Knight Commander´s (K.C.B.) Star, by Hamlet, London, 71mm, silver, gold, and enamel, with gold retaining pin, the reverse engraved ´Hamlet. Goldsmith & Jeweller to Their Majesties Royal Family. Princes St. Leicester Squ. London.´, about extremely fine, housed in a circular glazed frame Estimate £ 800-1,000 The Hamlet firm, located in Princes Street, near Leicester Square, was in business by the early part of the nineteenth century as ´´Jeweller to the Duke and Duchess of York´´, and made insignia until 1837. The Hamlet name has been seen on the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath, the Bavarian House Order of St. Hubert, and the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun. The inscription on the reverse of this Star dates it from the reign of William IV (1830-37).

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