Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame GTRexclude measuring 215 mm (w) x

measuring 215 mm (w) x 147 mm (h)

illustrating a star bearing a circle with the number "12"

measuring 40 mm (w) x 39 mm (h)

horizontal pinback - lightly bent but funcitonal

Italy, Republic. An Order Of Merit Of The Italian Republic, Grand Cross Badge in Frame GTRexclude measuring 215 mm (w) x(Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana). Instituted in 1951. A framed Grand Cross Badge in silver gilt, featuring a white enamel cross with a Goldfive point star in the centre, ball finial at each end of each arm, with eagles in each quadrant, reverse mirrors the obverse, the cross is surmounted by a large crown of the republic, measures 70. 45mm (w) x 94. 60mm (h inclusive of crown suspension and integral ring), on a period full length green and