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Auction: 21066 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 37

(x) The Major David Underwood Collection of collection of Royal Visits and Tours to India, 1876-1912
The M.V.O. awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Filrose, for the Royal Visit to India, 1905-06

The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 5th Class breast Badge, silver-gilt, gold, and enamel, the reverse officially numbered ‘127’, good very fine

M.V.O. London Gazette 15 May 1906:

'25 December 1905. Lieutenant-Colonel in Scindia's Army and Military Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Gwalior.'

Clement Augustine Filose was born at Gwalior in 1853. He married Missouri-born Mary Sheehan in India, with issue of five children and died at Surrey on 10 October 1938; sold together with copied portrait photograph (also wearing the 1902 Coronation Medal and a Vatican Order) and letter from Major-General Gillett at the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, confirming Filose was the recipient of Badge No. 127.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£290

Starting price
£130