Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Auction Archive the reverse is plain and

the reverse is plain and bears a vertical striaght pinback with a round wire catch and is marked “930” indicative of the grade of silver

Scarce item

having not realised that orders to withdraw had been issued

retaining a fully-intact tinted plastic eyepiece

Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Auction Archive the reverse is plain and(Imperial Ordem da Rosa). Instituted October 17, 1829 by Dom Pedro I. In silver gilt, a six armed white enamelled cross with ball finials, affixed to a solid multi rayed gilded plate with three pink enamelled roses on green enamelled laurels in each quadrant creating a wreath, the obverse medallion in Gold presents the hand chiselled medallion of Pedro I, surrounded by a blue enamelled ring with the inscription AMOR E FIDELIDADE (Love and Fidelity),