Letters patent
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1878
Materials
Gilt, Leather, Paper, Silk
Measurements
675 x 530 mm; 114 mm (Diameter)
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Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 429241
Summary
Patent of the Order of the Garter, dated 22 July 1878 and presented at Osborne. Signed bottom right 'J.F. Oxon C.G.' The patent has blue silk lining and is attached to a red seal by blue and gold thread with tassel. Seal in blue leather case with lid tooled in gold. See NT/HUG/V/14B for box. Disraeli received the Garter on his return from the Berlin Congress in 1878.