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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 292

Germany, Hohenlohe, House Order of the Phoenix, an early Badge, 18mm, gold and enamel, gold mark to ring, white enamel hairline cracks commensurate with age, good very fine, rare and attractive

The Princely dynasty of Hohenlohe existed from 1450. Prince Ernst I of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfurst established the Order of the Golden Flame on 29 December 1757, on the occasion of his 95th birthday. In 1770 the Order was reorganised by Prince Carl Albrecht, and named the Order of the Phoenix. The new Order was to be awarded to Germans and foreigners of noble descent. In 1795 Prince Ludwig Leopold of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein gave the Order new statutes in which it was divided into two divisions, House Order of the Golden Flame and Order of the Phoenix, with the latter divided into two classes.

The latin motto 'ex flammis clarior' translates as 'from the flame, brighter'. Hohenlohe was absorbed into the Kingdoms of Bavaria and of Württemberg by the Act of the Confederation of the Rhine, 12 July 1806. As such the miniature Order observed could be considered to have been of the period 1795-1806.

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