Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 Newly Listed addressed to "Herrn Alois Kawan

addressed to "Herrn Alois Kawan

the liberation of the Netherlands and its action during the Battle of the Bulge around the city of Bastogne

where he remain for the next four weeks before returning to Canada on July 17th

1 cm (w) x 14

who used "typically German" methods to achieve his ends -- "a mixture of cunning and childish simplicity"

Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 Newly Listed addressed to "Herrn Alois Kawan(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. 1950 present Issue. Of Italian manufacture, a very well preserved and highly attractive Grand Cross set by Tanfani & Bertarelli, consisting of an enamelled white Maltese cross in silver gilt, embellishing by a faceted gilt frame, with quadrants projecting clusters of multiple rays of different length also in silver gilt, the obverse depicting a superposed portrait of St. Sylvester, on an enamelled deep