Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 certificate_of_authenticity the peak featuring seven rows

the peak featuring seven rows of reinforced stitching

He signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (434581) with the 50th Infantry Battalion "Calgary Regiment"

while the medals issued later have a barrel-shaped suspension

overlaid by a central black enameled mobile swastika bearing a Stahlhelm

Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 certificate_of_authenticity the peak featuring seven rows(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