Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon Badge, C.1900 Archive El Alamein*

El Alamein*

circumscribed by an inscription of “REICHSWETTKÄMPFE DER SA BERLIN” (“REICHS SPORTS COMPETITION OF THE BERLIN SA”) with a date of “1939”

along its collar

the reverse is plain and attached to a fluted vertical stickpin

The Fourth Panzer Army under his command at Kursk was the largest tank formation ever assembled

Japan, Empire. An Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon Badge, C.1900 Archive El Alamein*( Kyokujitsu sh). Instituted in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan. Of foreign manufacture, a Grand Cordon badge of silver gilt, featuring a white enamelled eight point star with clusters of three intermediate rays with cleft ends, obverse medallion presents a beautiful red glass cabochon, reverse mirrors the obverse, suspended from a green and purple imperial Paulownia flower, measures 75. 7mm (w) x 117. 2mm (h inclusive of paulownia flower suspension