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DAUGHTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: A ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE, AND A FRENCH MINIATURE ENAMELED SILVER-GILT ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI EAGLE
Lot 602 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GLORIA MANNEY

DAUGHTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: A ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE, AND A FRENCH MINIATURE ENAMELED SILVER-GILT ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI EAGLE

THE FIRST LIKELY BY BAILEY, BANKS AND BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1900; THE SECOND BY ARTHUS BERTRAND, PARIS, SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

Closed20 January 2023

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DAUGHTERS OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: A ENAMELED GOLD EAGLE, AND A FRENCH MINIATURE ENAMELED SILVER-GILT ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI EAGLE
THE FIRST LIKELY BY BAILEY, BANKS AND BIDDLE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1900; THE SECOND BY ARTHUS BERTRAND, PARIS, SECOND QUARTER 20TH CENTURY
The Daughters Gold Eagle:
Obv. head left, the chased gold eagle topped by opaque white enamel ribbon with gilt lettering DAUGHTERS OF THE CINCINNATI, the medallion a pointed oval enclosing gilt profile of General Washington, motto SERVATA FIDES CINERI ., on pale blue enamel ground
Rev. stamped with number 785
With fixed small suspension ring and larger ring connected to blue and white ribbon with pointed end, the other end hand sewn to a bar pin

The French Silver-Gilt Eagle:
Obv. head left, white enamel head with gilt feathers and wreath of translucent bright green enamel leaves above, tail with five elongated feathers with smaller feathers above, medallion depicts Cincinnatus receiving sword from three senators
Rev. the medallion with Cincinnatus and plow with Fame above
With fixed tooled suspension ring connecting to spiral ring and blue and white ribbon with pointed end, other end hand sewn to two-prong pin
20 mm. high, to top of first ring, the Daughters Gold Eagle; 18 mm. high, to top of first ring, the French Silver-Gilt Eagle

Specialist note

Founded by officers of the Continental army and navy in 1783, the Society of the Cincinnati endeavored to preserve the friendships formed among members during service and to provide for impoverished families of the war. The Society was named after the Roman liberator Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus and the insignia features the Roman hero on a medallion applied to a gold eagle. While the original badge was designed by Major Pierre L'Enfant, later variations of both American and French manufacture, have been produced since then.

A similar but larger (33.5 mm. high) Daughters of the Cincinnati Eagle was sold recently by Stack’s Bowers Galleries on 14 June 2022, lot 1046. For identical model of French silver-gilt miniature eagle please see Minor Myers Jr., The Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati, 1989, p. 77.