This chapter will be including Dannebrog  Grand Cross / Commander Badges. I have been looking and digging for information through the last 30 years to understand a bit of this history. My focus is to display the variations of these beautiful pieces of art.

I must thank the huge inventory at Livrustkammaren in Stockholm Sweden. They have a huge collection of historical pieces with historical information.  As you see on this page a lot of the photos are still in black and white. Hopefully one day one will have more of these photos in high resolution color.  They have iincluded the history of these pieces and on many the dimensions are included. Unfortunately the weight of the pieces are missing. I am sure this will be available one day.

The Livrustkammaren is located next to the Royal Castle in Stockholm. I have visited their exhibitions several times. Very nice and and very interesting. About 20 years ago I was to have meetings with them and also having a real look at their vaults.  Unfortuntely Radon gas had been measured at too high levels and the old vaults were closed for all visits for years.  Still we had some very good meetings and discussed their collection of orders.  Since then they have moved their photos from their old website and now you find most of it on Wikimedia Commons, Europeana, Omnia.ie, etc.  Hopefully what you find there will be on these pages, plus alot more.

Scroll down (look below) to see these Dannebrog Grand Cross / Commander Badges! Please enjoy!

-1863-1906   Dannebrog GC/Commander Badges -

Height (mm): 101.9
Width  (mm): 40.1
Weight(gr) : 
Tracking # : D114x
Date       : 1863-1906 King
King       : Christian IX

-1908.04.30   Dannebrog GC/Commander Badges -

Height (mm): 78
Width  (mm): 38
Weight(gr) : 32.7
Tracking # : D015
Date       : 1906-1912 Kings reign
King       : King Frederik VIII

Kingdom of Denmark: Order of the Dannebrog
2nd model (since 1808), 7th issue (with the monogram of King Frederik IX - 1947-1972), Commander's Cross. This prestigious award was made by the court and order jeweller A. Michelsen in Copenhagen, and is crafted from silver-gilt and enamelled. It is fitted with the original ready-made neck ribbon.

Paird with D016. Awarded to Sir Charles Hardinge 1858 - 1944 in 1908. Copy of diploma. Original at Univ Cambridge. Came from the Richard Magor, Indian collection sold at DNW 2.Jul.2003

The Right Honourable Sir Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., I.S.O., Privy Counsellor, (1858-1944), was the younger son of the 2nd Viscount Hardinge, and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Office in 1880 and rose rapidly to become British Ambassador at St Petersburg, 1904-06, and, as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, head of the Foreign Office. One of the most brilliant diplomatists of his time and close friend and trusted adviser of Edward VII, he was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst in 1910, when, forsaking the courts and chanceries of Europe which he knew so well, he fulfilled his lifetime’s ambition to follow in the steps of his grandfather, the Peninsular veteran who was Governor-General of India at the time of the First Sikh War, by becoming Viceroy of India.

-1947-1972   Dannebrog GC/Commander Badges -

Height (mm): 
Width  (mm): 
Weight(gr) : 
Tracking # : D995x
Date       : 1947-1972 King
King       : King Frederik IX

Kingdom of Denmark: Order of the Dannebrog
2nd model (since 1808), 7th issue (with the monogram of King Frederik IX - 1947-1972), Commander's Cross. This prestigious award was made by the court and order jeweller A. Michelsen in Copenhagen, and is crafted from silver-gilt and enamelled. It is fitted with the original ready-made neck ribbon.