Need HELP on strange script

[ricky1972]

Hello all,

Today when taking pictures of mine new Brazilian order NATIONAL MERIT ORDER I found some strange script.

Can someone help me on this one?

It?s the highest order given by Brazilian Government. Since 1946 only 200 people were awarded.

I?m really happy to get this one....but all the experience I have with this order was in books, that do no mention this signs...

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo

Edited May 12, 2007 by ricky1972

[ricky1972]

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[Ed_Haynes]

Not, I think, script, just markings.

[ricky1972]

front

[ricky1972]

and back...

[ricky1972]

Not, I think, script, just markings.

Yes, but what they mean? Zodiacal signs maybe??

Thanks,

Ricardo

[Ed_Haynes]

Yes, but what they mean? Zodiacal signs maybe??

Thanks,

Ricardo

Possibly. Maybe just meaningless scribbles by the jeweler.

[ricky1972]

I?m sorry but I cannot belive that the highest Brazilian Order, inspired on the Imperial Order of the Rose have those meaningless scribbles.

Ricardo

[ricky1972]

duplicated post

Edited May 12, 2007 by ricky1972

[JBFloyd]

As the symbols appear on an armillary band on the globe, they probably were meant to represent the major constellations (zodiac), but the die cutter certainly added his own artistic license to the forms, as none match the modern representations of the signs.

[David S]

Good question !

Here are Zodiac signs

Some are close.

Edited May 12, 2007 by David S

[Ed_Haynes]

Yes "close" = "artisctic license" (or "artistic sloppiness"?)

[ricky1972]

Here?s another insignia of the order. Not mine.

The same symbols.

[ricky1972]

I think that Zodiac signs representing the constellations is the correct answer.

I tried to see some relevance on the date the order was created (september 1946) but...

Thanks all for the replies!

Ricardo

[ricky1972]

Here?s something I just found on the internet

[Megan]

I'd say zodiac signs as well. The band around the globe represents the ecliptic, and on it - if you are in to western astrology - you can mark the succession of 'houses' through which the earth moves... No doubt the original idea, but later jewellers weren't astrologers so carved something more or less like the original design rather than getting it precisely right.