THE DOCUMENT FOR THE ORDER OF CINCINNATI SIGNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, DATED 1785, WITH LATER GOLD AND ENAMEL BADGE OF THE ORDER engraved document signed ("Go: Washington"), being a membership certificate for the Society of the Cincinnati, on parchment, accomplished in a secretarial hand and signed by Washington as president of the Society of the Cincinnati, countersigned by Henry Knox ("HKnox") as secretary, engraved vignettes by Auguste L. Belle after Jean-Jacques Andre LeVeau (from the design of Pierre L'Enfant) depicting America in knight's armor trampling upon the British standard and the American eagle casting the British lion and Britannia out to sea with thunderbolts, depictions of both sides of the medal of the Order of the Cincinnati within roundels, Mount Vernon, Philadelphia, 5 May 1785, being the certificate of membership admitting Frederick Frye to the Society, in gilt frame; the badge in enameled gold, suspended from a silk ribbon, framed. 13 3/8 in. by 20 1/4 in. (document) 34 cm by 51.4 cm
THE DOCUMENT FOR THE ORDER OF CINCINNATI SIGNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, DATED 1785, WITH LATER GOLD AND ENAMEL BADGE OF THE ORDER engraved document signed ("Go: Washington"), being a membership certificate for the Society of the Cincinnati, on parchment, accomplished in a secretarial hand and signed by Washington as president of the Society of the Cincinnati, countersigned by Henry Knox ("HKnox") as secretary, engraved vignettes by Auguste L. Belle after Jean-Jacques Andre LeVeau (from the design of Pierre L'Enfant) depicting America in knight's armor trampling upon the British standard and the American eagle casting the British lion and Britannia out to sea with thunderbolts, depictions of both sides of the medal of the Order of the Cincinnati within roundels, Mount Vernon, Philadelphia, 5 May 1785, being the certificate of membership admitting Frederick Frye to the Society, in gilt frame; the badge in enameled gold, suspended from a silk ribbon, framed. 13 3/8 in. by 20 1/4 in. (document) 34 cm by 51.4 cm
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