of particularly fine English manufacture
each perforated with five ventilation holes and an additional top hole through which is looped a period original drawstring
35 mm (w) x 44
Gold-coloured bullion wire with olive green
engraved "1945" on the lower reverse arm
Egypt, Kingdom. An Order of the Nile, Grand Officer Set by Lattes, in Gold, c.1928 Auction Archive of particularly fine English manufacture(Kiladat El Nil). Instituted in 1915. Type II (1926 ). The badge in Gold and silver, ten pointed silver gilt star base, the obverse with a white enamelled five armed star with a silver gilt center inscribed in blue enamels, surrounded by a 22k Gold ring, on a crown suspension, the reverse marked with Arabic inscription, as well as an Alexandria assay mark and silver standard mark, as well as a cat (National Mark used between 1916 and 1946), and date