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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 249

(x) The M.V.O. awarded to Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Filose, for the Royal Visit to India, 1905-06

The Royal Victorian Order, Member's (M.V.O.) 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 and married Missouri-born Mary Sheehan in India. With issue of five children, he died at Worcester Park, 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.

Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£160