1904/1905 War medal Russo-Japanese War (cased)

good condition for age

UITVERKOCHT / SOLD
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A 6cm x 10.5cm softwood case containing the medal. The case has a vertical series of eight kanji characters, stamped in gold (faded) on its cover. The base of the interior is lined in a red velvet-like material and is molded to accommodate the medal and its ribbon. The enclosed award is in the form of a 3cm diameter medal, in gold-colored alloy, featuring, to one face, two crossed Rising Sun flags above Paulownia flowers and leaves and beneath a sixteen-lobed "sun." To the other face is a tablet with vertically arranged kanji characters to it, a sprig of laurel leaves to one side and a sprig of palm leaves to the other. The medal’s swiveling hanger is connected to a horizontal bar, which features four horizontally arranged kanji characters, through which the ribbon is looped

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