Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on a shorten original neck

on a shorten original neck ribbon

the reverse is plain and the clasp bears a magnetic horizontal banjo style pinback with flat wire catch

measuring 23 mm (w) x 21 mm (h)

in black case of issue (half etui

This is a second pattern (1934-1945) Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) visor skull (Totenkopf)

Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac on a shorten original neck(Ordine di San Gregorio Magno). Instituted in 1831. Multi piece construction, in silver gilt with red and blue enamels, each of the eight points of the cross exhibiting a ball finial, surmounted by a wreath in silver gilt with red and green enamels, unmarked, measuring 40. 5 mm (w) x 63. 8 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping and loss evident in the green enamels on both sides of the wreath, the enamels on the