Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic constructed of a black painted

constructed of a black painted magnetic metal shaft with nickel-silver fixtures secured to both the tip and throat

1884 in Belfast

when The 8th Battalion

with unsharpened edges

Brazil, Kingdom. An Order of the Rose, Officer Breast Star, c.1880 Heer. A Flak/Artillery Hauptmann’s Service Tunic constructed of a black painted(Imperial Ordem da Rosa). Instituted October 17, 1829 by Dom Pedro I. In silver gilt, a six armed white enamelled cross with ball finials, affixed to a solid multi rayed gilded plate with three pink enamelled roses on green enamelled laurels in each quadrant creating a wreath, the obverse medallion in Gold presents the hand chiselled medallion of Pedro I, surrounded by a blue enamelled ring with the inscription AMOR E FIDELIDADE (Love and Fidelity),