Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Golden Kite, I Class Star Auction A Rare April 22-24

A Rare April 22-24

"LA MÉDAILLE MILITAIRE / PRÉSIDENCE ET DEUXIEME EMPIRE" (eight illustrations))

The crown’s interior wire reinforcement has been removed

with central raised monogram of Kaiser Wilhelm II

and What They Made - From the Middle of the Sixteenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century"

Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Golden Kite, I Class Star Auction A Rare April 22-24(). Instituted February 12 1890. In silver, an eight point star of alternating clusters of three yellow enamelled rays with silver borders and five red enamelled rays with silver gilt borders, superimposed on the obverse sits a blue enamelled golden kite with yellow enamelled crossed swords with silver hilts atop the arms and a red flag at 3 and 9 oclock and a silver, green, purple and blue enamelled feature superimposed on the kite, surmounted by a