Japan, Empire. A Rare Meiji Period Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, By Hirata, In Case And Box, C.1890 Buy Now dated stamped "28 APR 1947"

dated stamped "28 APR 1947"

contact marks and surface wear on the QSM and BWM

whose army seized Beijing and briefly reinstalled the last emperor of the Qing dynasty

a HJ Labour Youth badge

crazing on the obverse and chipping on the reverse evident in the white enamels on the arm at 10 o'clock

Japan, Empire. A Rare Meiji Period Order Of The Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, By Hirata, In Case And Box, C.1890 Buy Now dated stamped "28 APR 1947"(). Instituted April 10, 1875 by the Japanese Government. Meiji Period (1868 1912). An early Grand Cordon Set, comprising a sash badge, presenting a large silver gilt eight point star with smooth white enamelled rays with cleft ends, the center medallion presents a beautiful red glass cabochon, reverse mirrors the obverse, suspended from a green and purple enamelled imperial pawlonia flower, reverse of the green enamel leaf on suspension presents an