Highly unusual collar with an even more unusual four armed "Maltese Asterisk" cross. Collar was donated to the Museum collection in 1878 by Lieutenant general Augustus William Henry Meyrick /British army officer and collector. He presented a large collection of Asian arms and Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities and playing-cards to the British museum in 1878, the same year he sold a number of Oceanian objects to the BM; cousin of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (q.v.) whose collection he inherited and later sold/.
Copper, gild, enamel.
Length: 988 mm.
Width 79 mm.
SAPR - St. Andrew, Patron of Russia.
За веру и верность - For Faith and Loyalty.
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