HANOVER, ROYAL GUELPHIC ORDER |

Second Period (following Queen Victoria’s accession to the British throne), Military Division, silver breast badge for existing Knights of the Order, in silver and enamels, with crossed swords beneath crown, reverse dated MDCCCXXXIX, of good quality workmanship, extremely fine

It became customary for Hanoverian Knights to wear breast badges of this kind on occasion and this example could have belonged either to the 1st or 2nd Duke; see also the following lot.