Italy, Kingdom. An Order of the Colonial Star of Italy, Knight Auction measuring 236 mm (w) x

measuring 236 mm (w) x 155 mm (h)

A First War Royal Flying Corps Officer's Swagger Stick - Bamboo

The document is dated to Berlin on August 21

(BERNARD JOHNSTONE

Italy, Kingdom. An Order of the Colonial Star of Italy, Knight Auction measuring 236 mm (w) x(Ordine coloniale della Stella d'Italia). Instituted in 1914, discontinued in 1943. In silver gilt, a white enamelled five point star with small ball finials, the obverse medallion presenting the crowned cypher of Victor Emmanuel on a red enamelled disc encircled by a green painted ring dated 1911, the reverse in red bearing the inscription AL MERITO COLONIALE, the badge is surmounted by a large hollow crown, measures 34. 8 mm (w) x 35. 6 mm (h), worn