FRANCE Navy chaplain's cross model 1853, second manufacture with articulated star Silver, edged on both sides with blue enamel. Gold crown and ropes. With its twisted royal blue silk cord. 100 x 48 mm - Gross weight: 44 g B.E. Second Empire period. Provenance : Former Napoleonic collection of the Prince's Palace of Monaco (3rd sale, lot 91) Bibliography : Dominique and Marie Claude HENNERESSE, Insignes et tenues des aumôniers militaires français depuis 1852, ETAI, 2011. France. A navy chaplain's cross model 1853, second manufacture with articulated star