Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 Newly Listed A Second War 1941/42 East

A Second War 1941/42 East Medal by Friedrich Keck - Silvered and blackened zinc

There are bronze collar disks held firmly in place via screwbacks on both collars

The front is completed by a vertical row of five large brown plastic buttons on the right side

while the reverse ricasso is numbered "138"

Vatican, City State. Equestrian Order Of St. Gregory The Great For Civil Merit, Iii Class Knight, Cased,C.1918 Newly Listed A Second War 1941/42 East(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