Orders of Black Eagle of Dukes of Cambridge

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Gold, enamel.
Width 72.7 mm.
Eagles were re-blackened.

Awarded in 1852. Queen Victoria, when writing to Prince George from Balmoral on 22 September 1852 regarding the death of the Duke of Wellington, added: "I give you, with the greatest of pleasure, permission to accept and wear the Order of the Black Eagle which the King of Prussia has been so kind as to give you". Following his father’s death in 1850 the Duke had returned Adolphus’s insignia of the Orders of the Black and Red Eagles to Frederick William IV of Prussia. A formal letter acknowledging their safe return survives, written in French, dated 7 September 1850 and bearing the signature "Fredéric Guillaume".
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Diamond-cut breast star.

Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 84.5 mm.
Reverse engraved in the manner of other Dukes of Cambridge insignia "No. 6". Bestowed upon Adolphus, First Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850) Viceroy of Hannover, 21 September 1820 as the 510th Knight of the Order.

Ex Robert T. McNamara Collection; purchased by him from Spink and Son in 1970.

Pin mark is unreadable.