Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon Badge, C.1900 Archive along its collar

along its collar

El Alamein*

I led the formation and Rudi was 10 m behind me in the second chain

marked “9” and for “Pforzheimer Schmuckhandfertiger”

Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon Badge, C.1900 Archive along its collar( Kyokujitsu sh). Instituted in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. Of foreign manufacture, a Grand Cordon badge of silver gilt, featuring a white enamelled eight point star with clusters of three intermediate rays with cleft ends, obverse medallion presents a beautiful red glass cabochon, reverse mirrors the obverse, suspended from a green and purple imperial Paulownia flower, measures 75. 7mm (w) x 117. 2mm (h inclusive of paulownia flower suspension