Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 certificate_of_authenticity as Sherlock survived the war

as Sherlock survived the war

portrait of Louis XVIII on the obverse centrepiece

the reverse with an inscription of “FÜR VERDIENSTVOLLE MITARBEIT BEI DEN OLYMPISCHEN SPIELEN 1936” (“FOR MERITORIOUS ASSISTANCE TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES 1936”)

very lightly soiled from storage

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A Red Cross Merit Decoration, C.1938 certificate_of_authenticity as Sherlock survived the warInstituted 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