Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 certificate_of_authenticity These operations consisted of bombing

These operations consisted of bombing missions against enemy Airdromes and Instalations [sic] and attacks on enemy naval vessels and shipping

R230 and some of its sailors

enclosing a small free-moving revolving rowel (small revolving wheel)

while the medals issued later have a barrel-shaped suspension

Vatican, City State. An Order Of St. Sylvester, Grand Cross Set By Tanfani & Bertarelli, C.1963 certificate_of_authenticity These operations consisted of bombing(Ordine di San Silvestro Papa). Instituted 1841. 1950 present Issue. Of Italian manufacture, a very well preserved and highly attractive Grand Cross set by Tanfani & Bertarelli, consisting of an enamelled white Maltese cross in silver gilt, embellishing by a faceted gilt frame, with quadrants projecting clusters of multiple rays of different length also in silver gilt, the obverse depicting a superposed portrait of St. Sylvester, on an enamelled deep