Italy Cased GO Italian Order of the Crown

[Josef Rietveld]

I want to show the ONLY italian order i own. i just bought ist because it is beautifull and nice to look at.

Grand officer's set of the italian order of the crown, mint condition, neckbadge as usual Gold, breaststar silver with cravanzola shield on the backside. pin and two sidepins. Cased in red velvet showing the kings royal Cypher Victor Emmanuel.

In comparism with the quality of the jewellers work i always found that italian orders are really affordable. i don't know why so few people collect italian decorations?

regards

haynau

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[David Gregory]

Haynau,

That is a very attractive set. I have some documents to a former German officer and diplomat who received a lower grade of the order and I would like to obtain a nice example to match the documents.

As I understand it, this order has been (or was) awarded over a long period. Do you know how old your example is and if there are any distinguishing features to determine the age of the various grades?

Thanks in advance,

David

[Hendrik]

Hello Haynau, David,

Gorgeous set !

The Order of the Crown is indeed an old one : instituted in 1868 by the then king Victor Emmanuel II to commemorate the union of Italy into a kingdom. The order ceased to be awarded after Italy became a republic in 1946 and was abolished in 1951. As far as I know the design never changed so it may well be pretty difficult to date these awards when no accompanying documents are around.

Although there aren't that many collectors around for Italian medals as for German awards, some must be around ... let's find out - I'll start a thread on them.

[Josef Rietveld]

Hi David, dating the crwon-Order seems to be diificult. In the era the order was awarded reigned three Kings:

1861?1878: Viktor Emanuel II.

1878?1900: Umberto I.

1900?1946: Viktor Emanuel III.

So the easiest way is maybe buying an cased order with the royall cypher U for umberto on it.

As far as i know the order was always made in GOLD with the exception of private purchased pieces and orders given after 1946 from exil-king Umberto II in silver or even bronze/gilded.

I assume that Expert-Collectors could date crown-orders by details like box and producer marks but that is, sorry to say, beyond my knowledge.

I alwas thought that my GO-Set dates from the reign of Victor Emanuel IIIrd. Velvet boxes were poular before the outbreak of the great war. but it could also be that this boxes were given after 1918. I'am not shure about this.

haynau