Spain, Kingdom. An Order of Charles III, V Class Knight Newly Listed Footnote: The Royal Canadian Hussars

Footnote: The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) derives from the Montreal Volunteer Cavalry (formed in the late eighteenth century)

two piece construction affixed by four crimped points

each pocket with a decorative pleat and fold over flap with reinforced button hole for the dark brown plastic button

finished with reinforced button holes over pebbled buttons on an orange-coloured wool backer

The reverse of the crossguard is inset with a functional push-button release for a spring clip which emanates from the dagger’s ricasso

Spain, Kingdom. An Order of Charles III, V Class Knight Newly Listed Footnote: The Royal Canadian Hussars(Real y Muy Distinguida Orden de Carlos III). Instituted in 1771. A privately commissioned jeweler made example of this order exhibiting extensive hand etching rather than cast plus hand etched details, in silver gilt and enamels, a Maltese cross with blue and white enamel, with fleur de lys in each quadrant, surmounted by a hand etched wreath, the obverse centerpiece altered bearing a later added iconography of the Immaculate Conception and etched