Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in silvered bronze and pebbled

in silvered bronze and pebbled red enamels

It was founded on December 3

eighty years removed from one another

my neck and my cheek

Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac in silvered bronze and pebbled(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