Collar of the Saint Andrew the First Called order from the collection of the British Museum

Highly unusual collar with an even more unusual four armed "Maltese Asterisk" cross. Could be a Saint Andrew masonic lodge insignia. 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.
Badge width 79 mm.

SAPR - St. Andrew, Patron of Russia.

За веру и верность - For Faith and Loyalty.

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Another example of a similar badge without collar and suspension.

Size 85 x 80 mm.