Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 Auction the decoration was restored again

the decoration was restored again as the Cross of Recognition in 2004

and silver buttons superimposed on the top

two tiny chips evident in the blue enamels on the bottom ribbon banner

code “M9/34”

FRITZ TODT” with a mobile swastika within a cogwheel beneath

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 Auction the decoration was restored againInstituted in 1938. Three piece construction, in silver with red, white, green and yellow enamels, measuring 44 mm (w) x 49 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally pierced suspension, chipping evident in the yellow enamels on the rays on either side of the arm at 9 o'clock, crazing present in the red enamels on the arm at 3 o'clock and on the Red Cross on the centrepiece, contact marks, original ribbon with hook and eye, very fine. In its hardshelled case