Fake vs. Original "Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter"

Another "masterpiece" from this family https://asiamedals.info/threads/blass-fake-breast-stars-combined-with-the-order-of-the-garter.25815/

Naturally "manufacture by an unidentifiable jeweller". The only thing that is original (and has anything do with the Hanoverian Order of St. George/Sankt Georgs-Orden) is a sash. Why seller of this fake Lesser George called it "Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter" is a mystery.​

Gold, agate, enamel.
Size 74.6 x 44.4 mm.
Weight 54.4 g.

Reverse.

Fake Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter.jpg


Obverse.

Fake  Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter.jpg


"Get the hell outta here" rarity.

Fake Medallion  of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter.jpg


Fake Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order  of St. George combined with the Most Noble Order of the Garter.jpg
 
Most likely previous fake was modeled after this Lesser George from Spada collection (ex-collection of the Dukes of Beaufort).

Gold, enamel, onyx.
Size 107 x 59 mm.
Weight 82 g.

original medallion from Spada collection.jpg


Note that fake is trying to mimic even the crack of original medallion.

original  medallion from  Spada  collection.jpg


As far apart (by quality) from previous piece as heaven and earth.

original medallion from Spada  collection.jpg
 
Together with original case.

Original Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George.jpg
 
Original Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George.jpg
Original  Medallion of Royal Hanoverian Order of St. George.jpg


On display at the Museum of the Legion of Honor, Paris.

Museum of the Legion of Honor, Paris.jpg
 
In turn, medallions of the badge from the Spada collection were designed after a famous Lesser George known as "The Strafford George".

Gold, silver, enamel, onyx: brown, light grey, dark grey; Dutch rose-cut diamonds, agate.
Size 80 x 48 mm.

Royal collection.

The  Strafford George.jpg


The Strafford George.jpg


"When exhibited at the 1894 Heraldic Exhibition at Burlington House, this badge was said to have belonged to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641), who was created a Knight of the Garter in 1640. For various reasons it is difficult to accept this provenance: the cut of the stones, their settings and the style of the enamelling would tend to place the badge in the second half of the seventeenth century ... The enamel miniature of St. George and the dragon on the reverse of the badge is after a painting by Raphael of c.1506, that painting had been presented to Charles I between 1628 and 1638 but was sold, together with most of the Royal Collection, in 1651 ... It is not known how the badge entered the Royal Collection. It first appears as a later addendum to the 1909 inventory of gems and jewels where it is described as belonging to Charles I. When exhibited in 1894 the piece was in the collection of Sir Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures from 1882 to 1901."

Ancient and Modern Gems and Jewels in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, 2008.​
 
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