Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 certificate_of_authenticity 5 mm x 63 mm

5 mm x 63 mm inclusive of its wings suspension

very lightly soiled from storage

of particularly fine quality make

War Merit Cross with Swords Second Class (with original award document as Generalleutenant)

Hardwood shaft with a finely polished finish

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 certificate_of_authenticity 5 mm x 63 mmInstituted 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