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 429241.1
Summary
Letters 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 (429241.3). Seal held in blue leather case with lid tooled in gold (429241.4). See also 429241.2 for presentation box. Disraeli received the Garter on his return from the Berlin Congress in 1878.