ORDER OF SAINT STANISLAS

Officer's Cross, 3rd Class, instituted in 1832. Breast Badge, 44x42 mm, GOLD, four-armed cross made of pink gold, with Black enamel on both sides, flanked by yellow gold eagles with spreaded wings, white enameled centre medallion with black, miniature-painted order`s monogram, within golden outer circlet, enriched with green enameled laurel wreath, reverse, with white enameled centre medallion, similar to the obverse`s one, ornamented upper loop, its ring, struck with Russian gold maker's mark of "Ivan Osipov", gold-wire, doubled ribbon ring and original, silk neck ribbon. A very rare and superb decoration, of the 19th Century in mint condition. I RR!