inside with a leather sweatband
but the seriousness of the 1953 epidemic pressured Manitoba
with the obverse presenting a diademed head of Queen Victoria and the legend VICTORIA REGINA with the date 1854 below
The cover is constructed of a cardboard-reinforced faux blue leather
18 mm x 14 mm
Italy, Kingdom. A Cased Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, Grand Cross Breast Star, c. 1900 by Cravanzola of Rome Province of China inside with a leather sweatband(Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro). Instituted September 16th, 1572. (c. 1900 issue). Constructed of silver, consisting of an eight pointed star with a multi faceted surface, the obverse with a white enameled Shamrock Cross with three raised roundels on each end of the cross, with green enameled fans in the quadrants between the arms of the cross, the reverse plain, with a barrel hinge, tapered vertical pinback, and rightward opening broad wire