Unknown Royal star, please help identify

[Sampo]

Hello 

I hope some one can help me out identifying this star. Has some Persian looks to it, but also a European crown.

I have really no idea, maybe you?

[922F]

A piece of costume jewelry manufactured by the CORO firm.  Coro, based in New York City, U.S.A., apparently bought a number of dies from French award makers [identified by some to include Delande and Baqueville] in the late 1940's-early 1950's.  Coro used these and other of their own dies to produce a wide range of pieces in it's "Heraldic Line".  Coro appears to have manufactured most "Heraldic Line" designs during the 1950's.   At least four "international knightly orders" adopted Coro products as their insignia; Coro may have continued production of those through the 1960's.

 

Some items within that line duplicated actual awards, sometimes even copying original enamel colors, but most combined several dies to create a novel design.  Internet search will reveal variations created to be worn as pins, broaches, pendants, and so on.  The most comprehensive study of this Coro product line may be found at https://www.omsa.org/forums/topic/coro-heraldic-line-medals/   That effort, however, does not include all types.  

 

Coro ceased business in 1979.  

[Sampo]

922F

 

Thanks, so a fantasy medal.

[922F]

Sorry for late reply. 

 

This star was originally made and sold as a piece of costume jewelry, not with the intent of misleading buyers.  So, don't know if 'fantasy medal' is an exactly correct term. 

 

Sometimes vendors try to pass Coro items off as actual award insignia, especially those modeled on the Ottoman Shefkat Order and the Royal Order of the Star of Anjouan.  Ignorance or cupidity, who knows? .  

 

Actual award insignia do appear for sale with broach pins or jewelry suspensions added and original parts removed because people wanted to wear them as 'fashion accessories'.  Others were altered by awardees themselves to make them easier to fasten to clothing or wear.  This includes removing hinges, pins, pin catches and 'outriggers' from stars and replacing them with clutch back type pins or soldering or gluing movable suspensions so the item lacks articulation.   Alterations may also have been motivated by an awardee's desire to replace specific symbols.