Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 Archive American Legion insignia in bronze

American Legion insignia in bronze gilt with blue enamels

Paul-Adolphe Dieudonné Thiébault's lineage can be traced back one more generation: his maternal grandmother (Elizabeth "Betsy" Walker's mother) was the Scottish novelist Lady Mary Hamilton (May 8

silvered bronze and black and pebbled red enamels

featuring an Army eagle crossguard

and a Sweetheart Ring (two-piece construction

Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 Archive American Legion insignia in bronze(Orde van Holland). Established by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland, in 1806. Abolished in 1811. Type III (1806 1807). Of high quality manufacture, a superb napoleonic era decoration referred to as a later Bacqueville manufacture, consisting of a beaded eight pointed multiple rayed convex star in silver, the obverse exhibiting a detailed superposed crowned Dutch lion swimming on brave waves, surrounded by Orders motto DOE WEL EN ZIE NIET OM