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A beautiful and rare decoration of the Paris National Guard,…
See original version (French)
7
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A beautiful and rare decoration of the Paris National Guard,…
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €350
Voluntary lot
Description
A beautiful and rare decoration of the Paris National Guard, worn during the Fête de Fédération des François on 14 July 1790. A wide white moiré ribbon with two gold stripes, bearing in its centre a tricolour cockade made of gathered cloth, holding a button inscribed ‘Garde Nationale de Paris’, with a silver medallion featuring a fleur-de-lis in relief at the centre. Suspended by a loop is a double-sided gilt-bronze medal bearing, on the reverse and surrounded by a crown, the inscription ‘Confédération des Français’, and on the obverse an allegorical figure surrounding the Altar of the Fatherland, dated ‘In Paris, 14 July 1790’. Condition 1-
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