The 19th century
Medals and orders can be heavy things. So what better way to carry around your various hard-earned gongs than a one-size-fits-all miniature version of them all?
That seems to have been the solution for Napoleonic war hero General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill (1772-1842), who by the end of his career had picked up the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, the Peninsular Cross and the Hanoverian Guelphic Order.