3rd class St.George order from the flag pommel of His Majesty's Hussar Life Guards Regiment

Exellent specimen from 1830.

Gold, enamel.
Size 51 x 46.6 mm.
Weight 16.3 g.

 

New model of St. George banners for the Imperial Guards units instituted on August 5(17), 1830 by Nicolas I. The two-headed eagle with lowered flight is placed on a sphere surmounting a socket decorated with palmettes, the color of the metal of the button (silver for the Cossacks regiments). Those Georgian banners also receive a cross of the order hanging from a knot of ribbon in the colors of the order, tied with the pole iron. Originally each of the three regiment squadrons of the regiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Majesty's_Hussar_Life_Guards_Regiment received their Saint-Georges banners of the first model of 1806 on March 15(27), 1823 for victorious campaigns during the Napoleonic wars. Naturally type 1806 banners were replace to the banners of new model in 1830. From May 28/June 9, 1868, only the standard of the 1st squadron was used for the whole regiment, the other two banners were deposited at the headquarters of the army of the Don in Novocherkask. On April 6/18, 1875, a new type of Saint-Georges standarts was adopted for the Guards units. Therefore the regiment received only one new St. George's jubilee standart (model 1875), the old banners were kept in the regimental church. During the February revolution of 1917 the officers dismantle and remove all the elements of the officers' mess, the chapel, and the hall. Thus almost all of the regiment's historical reliques and precious objects were kept from certain disappearance, as was the case for all the other regiments. Sheltered on the native Don during the civil war, this treasure was sent to Constantinople in 1919, then to Serbia until 1928 before arriving in France in 1929. Currently it is in the collection of the Museum of the Legion of Honor, Paris.

Silvered bronze.
Height 273 mm.
Weight 1.1 kg.