Description
Order of the Bath, Knight Commander Civil Division Neck Badge, circa late 1840s, in solid gold.
Superb, unhallmarked and privately made with a smooth flat rim, but of exquisite European manufacture, possibly the work of an Austrian or German Workshop, may have been an Honorary award to German Nobility upon the recreation of the Civil Division of the Order of the Bath in 1847.
Dimensions: 37mm wide, 51mm tall to top of badge not including rings, 80mm tall in full from top of suspension ring to bottom, 31.6 grams.