PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A brass flagpole finial, 8 5/8" in height, with a 3 1/4" long threaded metal rod to its base. The finial features the Hungarian national coat of arms to its center, being the crown of St. Stefen surmounting a shield with, to the left, eight horizontal bars (alternating red and white were it in color), and, to the right, the double-armed Patriarchal or Apostolic cross rising from a crown resting upon the central peak of the Tatra mountains. The coat of arms is enclosed by a wreath, of oak leaves to one side and laurels to the other, bound at their bases by a bow. This, in turn, is within a border which slopes towards a point with a ball to its top, and which scallops inwards and then outwards again near the base of the wreath, terminating in a segmented, flattened, ball-shaped collar from whose widening base the threaded rod extends. The reverse is a repetition of the obverse. The obverse (determined by the angle of the slanted cross to the top of the crown) exhibits heavy verdigris, whereas the reverse has only traces of that. Moderate age soiling and darkening is evident throughout.

GRADE ***1/4                             PRICE $117.00