Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2013 ANA Auction - Online Only Sessions F & G 20 August 2013
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NEPAL. Order of the Ghurka Right Hand (or Gorkha Dakshina Bahu), Second Class, Instituted 1932.
2 pieces in set, in silver and silver gilt. Grand Cross set of Breast Star and Badge with cravat. Housed in a green leather, velvet and satin hinge-top box. The 59 mm gilt Badge with sun-face and crossed kukri knives, hallmarked on the reverse and suspended from a brown silk 42 x 600 mm neck ribbon. The silver and gilt Breast Star measures 80 mm and features a Sanskrit legend surrounding a five pointed multi-rayed star with a central sun-face and crossed knives, Buddha's feet below. The reverse is hallmarked and fitted with a single hinged tunic pin and clasp.ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $300
NEPAL. Order of the Ghurka Right Hand (or Gorkha Dakshina Bahu), Second Class, Instituted 1932.
2 pieces in set, in silver and silver gilt. Grand Cross set of Breast Star and Badge with cravat. Housed in a green leather, velvet and satin hinge-top box. The 59 mm gilt Badge with sun-face and crossed kukri knives, hallmarked on the reverse and suspended from a brown silk 42 x 600 mm neck ribbon. The silver and gilt Breast Star measures 80 mm and features a Sanskrit legend surrounding a five pointed multi-rayed star with a central sun-face and crossed knives, Buddha's feet below. The reverse is hallmarked and fitted with a single hinged tunic pin and clasp.ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $300