World Orders and Decorations 774
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, silver frame split in angles; War Merit Cross 1939, Second Class breast badge (3), bronze, one with crossed swords, two without; Long Service Medal, Fourth Class, for 4 Years’ Service, silvered, with eagle emblem on riband; Faithful Service Decoration, Second Class, for 25 Years’ service, silver, in card box of issue; Police Long Service Cross, Second Class, for 18 Years’ service, silver, with original embroidered riband; Winter Campaign Medal 1941-42, zinc; Cross of Honour of the German Mother (3), First Class, 2nd type, gilt and enamel (2), one in case of issue; Third Class, 2nd type, bronze and enamel, generally good very fine (11)
£140-£180
Sold together with a display of Third Reich Badges, some of which are reproductions, comprising Hitler Youth Sports Award Badge dated 1938; Hitler Youth Jugundfest Badge 1937; a Labour Say Badge 1939; a Military Assault Badge; a Gautag Stuttgart Badge June 1937; two N.S.D.A.P. lapel badges; ansd a D.V.G. Westmark Badge.
775 Italy, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Knight’s breast badge, gold and enamel, good very fine
Spain, Kingdom, Order of Naval Merit, Star, 67mm, gilt and enamel, white cross with surmounted anchor, with retaining pin and two additional support hooks; minor enamel damage to anchor, very fine (2)
£80-£120 776
A Japanese pair awarded to Gunto (Sergeant) Masaaki Yorioka, Imperial Japanese Army, who died of wounds in China in October 1937
Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, Eighth Class breast badge, silver, with lapel rosette, in original rio-nuri lacquered case of issue; China Incident Medal 1937, bronze, in case of issue, extremely fine (2)
£60-£80 Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2010.
Masaaki Yorioka was born on 17 July 1909 in the Kochi Prefecture. As a Gunto in the Imperial Japanese Army, he died of wounds in the 2nd Imperial Field Hospital on 29 October 1937.
Sold with the recipient’s original named Service Book; ‘Gunto’ collar rank patch; and a photograph of the recipient in uniform. 777
Japan, Empire, Order of the Rising Sun, Eighth Class breast badge, silver, with original riband with full hook and eye suspension, in original printed paper wrapper; Order of the Sacred Treasure, Seventh Class breast badge, silver-gilt, with original riband with full hook and eye suspension, in original printed paper wrapper; War Medal 1894-95, dark bronze, in original rio-nuri lacquered case of issue, the two Orders extremely fine, traces of verdigris to War Medal, this nearly very fine (3)
£50-£70 778
Poland, Republic, 6th Kaniowski Lancers Regiment Jetton, silver and enamel; 59th Wielkopolski Infantry Regiment Jetton, silver and enamel; Warrant Officer’s Reserve Cavalry School Jetton, silver and enamel; together with a post-Great War Polish Jetton, silver, generally very fine (4)
£140-£180 779
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Order of the Patriotic War, Second Class, 3rd ‘1985 issue’ type, silver and enamel, reverse officially numbered ‘1252900’, with Monetny Dvor mint mark and screwback suspension; Capture of Budapest Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Koenigsburg Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Vienna Medal, bronze-gilt; Capture of Berlin Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Belgrade Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Warsaw Medal, bronze-gilt; Liberation of Prague Medal, bronze-gilt; Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze-gilt; Medal for Victory over Japan 1945, bronze-gilt; Medal for Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45, bronze, minor traces of verdigris, generally very fine, the Belgrade medal scarce (11)
£200-£300 780
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Defence of Leningrad Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of Odessa Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of Sevastopol Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of Stalingrad Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of Moscow Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of Kiev Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of the Caucasus Medal, bronze-gilt; Defence of the Arctic Medal, bronze-gilt, minor traces of verdigris in parts, generally very fine and better, the Odessa and Sevastopol medals scarce (8)
£200-£300 781
Vatican, Holy See, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross, 2nd issue, gilt, in fitted case of issue; Jerusalem Pilgrim’s Cross, silver, with top ‘Jerusalem’ riband bar; together with a Pope Leo XIII Papal Medal in silver, in fitted case; a Pope Leo XIII Papal Medal in bronze; and a copy Pope Innocent XI Papal Medal in bronze, generally very fine (5)
£60-£80 Sold together with a Vatican belt buckle. 782 783 784
Venezuela, Republic, Order of Simon Bolivar, Officer’s breast badge, 43mm x 38mm, silver-gilt and enamel, unmarked, with rosette on riband, enamel damage to motto, very fine
£60-£80 Vietnam, Republic, Air Gallantry Cross, silver, gilt, and enamel, lacking riband, good very fine £60-£80
International, Royal, Celestial, and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy, breast Star, 89mm, silver and enamel, unmarked, with retaining hook and two additional support hooks; together with the breast star of an ephemeral Religious Order, 67mm, silver and enamel, unmarked, with retaining hook; and four filigree jewellery silver brooches based on the Cross of the Order of Malta, minor red enamel damage to centres of both Stars, otherwise generally very fine (6)
£100-£140
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