Orders, Decorations and Medals of Chile

Links and Other References

Acknowledgements

Ed Emering, Emmanuel Halleux, Ilya Repetski, Norbert Traub and Yuri Yashnev, who have all kindly contributed many beautiful pictures of Chilean medals.

Grateful thanks to Bene Merenti, Dix Noonan Webb, La Galerie Numismatique, Liverpool Medals, Morton & Eden, and Spinks, who have allowed use of images from their catalogues.

Links

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile - Ceremonial y Protocolo: Condecoraciones

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of Chile - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7

Juergen Brinkmann - Chile Medals Orden Condecoraciones (Archived February 2008).

JeanPaul LeBlanc - Orders, Decorations and Medals of Chile (Archived July 2014).

Ilja Repetski - World Awards: Chile

Eric Semon - Décorations du Chili

Mario Volpe - Tavole ordini SUD AMERICA (1)

Yuri Yashnev - For Merit: Chile

Wikipedia - Orders, decorations, and medals of Chile

From a Thankful Nation: Latin American Medals & Orders from the Robert L. Ross Collection at Princeton University - fantastic display

MedalBook - Chile

Text References

Barac, B. (2009). Reference Catalogue Orders, Medals and Decorations of the World Part 1: Iron Book (A-D) OBOL, Zagreb.

Furtado, R. (2022). The Amazing Life of Bernardo O'Higgins and the Chilean Order that carries his name. Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America 73(1):29-32.

Gillingham, H.E. (1932). South American Decorations and War Medals. Numismatic Notes and Monographs #56, American Numismatic Society, New York

Rosenzweig, P.A. (2016). An Orden Al Mérito (Republic of Chile) to an Australian: Cecil Woods Le Plastrier (1878-1952). Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society 55(1): 36-40.

Stair Sainty, G. & Heydel-Mankoo, R. (Eds) (2006) World Orders of Knighthood and Merit Burke's Peerage and Gentry.

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