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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 758

(x) A superb Regency period Order of Charles III of English manufacture

Spain, Kingdom, Order of Charles III, Commander's Star c.1830, by Hamlet, London, 73mm x 72mm, silver, gold and enamel, with gold retaining pin, the reverse cartouche engraved 'Hamlet. Goldsmith & Jeweller. To His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, & Royal Family. Princes St. Leicester Sq. London.', reverse cartouche sometime tightened, minor areas of blue overpainting to rays, otherwise good very fine

The Hamlet firm, located in Princes Street, near Leicester Square, was in business by the early part of the nineteenth century and made insignia until 1837. The company's name has been seen on the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Bath, the Bavarian House Order of St. Hubert, and the Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun. By 1840 the firm were listed as 'Jewellers Extraordinary' in The British Imperial Calendar.

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