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 a 643-ton barkentine

a 643-ton barkentine

Instituted 1693 by Louis XIV (Louis the Great)

eighty years removed from one another

Following the course

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 a 643-ton barkentine(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