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€ 2.500 - 3.500
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€ 6.250
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dating: 1963-1970 provenance: State of the Vatican City, Red cloth jacket, blue cloth collar and cuffs embroidered with gilded threads with floral motifs in relief. Chest with several buttonholes for the orders. Complete with epaulettes with gilded-threads bullions and provided with three silver stars, gilded-and silvered-threads band, tassels with three stars and bandoleer worked en suite and provided with gilded metal Papal badges, one with silver 'GNP' monogram of the Noble Guard, the other with decussate keys and papal tiara. Gilt buttons with papal emblem and inscription 'GUARDIA NOBILE'. With the tailor's label inside marked 'DI PONIO ROMA DI PLINIO GERLINI'. Provided with white trousers, white leather gloves and sword. The latter with a straight double-edged blade with remains of engravings, tang marked 'G. CESATI & FI. MILAN ROMA'. Beautiful gilded bronze hilt with papal emblems and three stars in relief. Black coiled grip with remains of metal wire binding. Complete with scabbard. The Noble Guard was dissolved by Pope Paul VI in 1970. height 82 cm.
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