Dubious vs. Original Lesser Georges with Enamel Miniatures of St. George painted after Raphael

Dubious piece that could belong to this "family" https://asiamedals.info/threads/blass-fake-breast-stars-combined-with-the-order-of-the-garter.25815/

Naturally "manufacture by an unidentifiable jeweler". Recently it was sold as the "Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter". Wild description (to put it mildly), since the only thing that has anything do with the Hanoverian Order of St. George/Sankt Georgs-Orden is a sash. Why seller called it "Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter" is a mystery.

Originally this badge surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1977 as the Lesser George that allegedly was privately-comissioned around 1820 and belonged to the Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville (11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891) who was created a knight of the Garter in 1867.​

Gold, agate, enamel.
Size 74.6 x 44.4 mm.
Weight 54.4 g.

Buckle is an obvious modern restoration (back in 1977 it was missing).

Same badge back in 1977.

Sankt Georgs-Orden sash.

 

It will be interesting to compare previous badge with known originals that also uses famous painting by Raphael.

Lesser George from Spada collection (ex-collection of the Dukes of Beaufort).

Gold, enamel, onyx.
Size 107 x 59 mm.
Weight 82 g.

As far apart (by quality) from previous piece as heaven and earth.

 

Together with original case.

 

On display at the Museum of the Legion of Honor, Paris.

 

Famous Lesser George known as "The Strafford George".

Gold, silver, enamel, onyx: brown, light grey, dark grey; Dutch rose-cut diamonds, agate.
Size 80 x 48 mm.

Royal collection.

"When exhibited at the 1894 Heraldic Exhibition at Burlington House, this badge was said to have belonged to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641), who was created a Knight of the Garter in 1640. For various reasons it is difficult to accept this provenance: the cut of the stones, their settings and the style of the enamelling would tend to place the badge in the second half of the seventeenth century ... The enamel miniature of St. George and the dragon on the reverse of the badge is after a painting by Raphael of c.1506, that painting had been presented to Charles I between 1628 and 1638 but was sold, together with most of the Royal Collection, in 1651 ... It is not known how the badge entered the Royal Collection. It first appears as a later addendum to the 1909 inventory of gems and jewels where it is described as belonging to Charles I. When exhibited in 1894 the piece was in the collection of Sir Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures from 1882 to 1901."

Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 2008.​