Italy, Kingdom; International. A Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Commander Set

(Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani). Instituted in 1434. Badge: in bronze gilt with light green, dark green and white enamels, designed with ball finials on all eight points on the arms, measuring 57.5 mm (w) x 62 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pierced ball suspension, suspended from a trophy-of-arms in bronze gilt with light green and white enamels, crazing and chipping evident in the white enamels in the bottom tip of the arm at 3 o'clock, on a full-length neck ribbon with hook and eye; and Breast Star: cross with a two-piece construction, in bronze gilt with light green, dark green and white enamels, designed with ball finials on all eight points on the arms, mounted to an eight-pointed star base in bronze gilt, each of the eight arms of the star with seven emanating rays, measuring 85.5 mm (w) x 85.5 mm (h), vertical pinback flanked by dual stays. Very fine and near extremely fine, respectively. 

Footnote: The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem is a Christian self-styled order that was statuted in 1910 by a council of Catholics in Paris, France, initially under the protection of Patriarch Cyril VIII Geha of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. During the 1920s, it expanded its jurisdiction and enrolled members from other countries in Europe and in the Americas. It re-established the office of grand master in 1935, linking the office to members of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon. It assumed an ecumenical dimension during the 1950s to expand its membership to individuals of other Trinitarian Christian denominations in British Commonwealth countries. Owing to an internal schism in 1969, the order became divided into two competing "obediences", known as the Malta Obedience and the Paris Obedience. In 2008, these rival obediences were reconciled and reunited into a single order once again, led at that time by Carlos Gereda y de Borbón as grand master, and with the spiritual protection of the (now former) Patriarch Gregory III Laham of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. However, during the period of separation, the Paris Obedience had experienced further schisms, with the creation in 1995 of the United Grand Priories of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus (led at that time by John Baron von Hoff), and in 2004 of the Orléans Obedience (led at that time by Prince Charles-Philippe d'Orléans under the protection of Henri d'Orléans, Count of Paris). The latter group then experienced a schism in 2010, resulting in the creation of the Jerusalem Obedience (led by Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma).