Liberia, Republic. An Order Of The Pioneers Of Liberia, By A. Bacqueville, Knight C.1960 Archive 20 mm x 66 mm)

20 mm x 66 mm)

1937-1938 - Printed in four-colour ink on a thin paper stock

DEFENCE OF LADYSMITH (283450 STO: W

Constructed of densely woven BeVo style machine embroidery in matte olive coloured and black threading

Liberia, Republic. An Order Of The Pioneers Of Liberia, By A. Bacqueville, Knight C.1960 Archive 20 mm x 66 mm)Instituted 1955. Of French manufacture, an enameled white eleven pointed star in silver, depicting silver points between the arms, obverse centre in gilt exhibiting an enameled scene of American ex slave pioneers greeting tribal Africans, on an enameled blue pale background, surrounded by an enameled red border inscribed HERE WE ARE, HERE WE WILL REMAIN, reverse centre with enameled blue pale medallion depicting a gilded scroll of the Bill of Rights,