United Kingdom. A Volunteer Officer's Decoration, By Sebastian Garrard, 1898 certificate_of_authenticity The back of the gorget

The back of the gorget has the brown colored leather backing and is unmarked

a silver gilt maltese cross with wreath sections in each quadrant

finely-detailed Army eagle with its talons clenching a wreathed swastika insignia on the crossguard

missing red enameling in "CCCP"

Instituted 1865

United Kingdom. A Volunteer Officer's Decoration, By Sebastian Garrard, 1898 certificate_of_authenticity The back of the gorgetVictoria. In silver gilt, maker marked "SG" (Sebastian Garrard), hallmarked with the British lion, marked with a leopard's head (made in London) and date marked "c" (1898) on the reverse, replacement ribbon suspended from a hanger bearing oak leaves and acorns with pinback, extremely fine.