On 8 February 1864, the king founded the Royal Order of Cambodia as an order of merit with five degrees. After 1896, the French government and the kings of Cambodia each granted themselves the Order of Cambodia. The French president was rightly Grand Cross in the Royal Order of Cambodia. The order served to distinguish civilians and soldiers, subjects of the king or strangers, who had made themselves worthy. In 1896, the order was officially taken up in the French system of colonial orders of chivalry.
Cambodia
CAMBODIA. French Colonial, Order of Cambodia, Officer’s breast badge
$200.00
74mm including crown suspension x 53mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with rosette on Cambodian Government-issue riband, crown lacking surmounted cross, otherwise extremely fine.