Description
Fotheringham
Lapel Badge (bronze gilt with red and blue enamels
A 1933 Lübeck Braune Messe “Handel
topped by a royal monogram and within a laurel leaf wreath
39 mm x 37
China, Republic - Kuomintang Era. An Order Of The Brilliant Jade, Ii Class Star, C.1933 Hold Fotheringham(Ficu xnzhng). Instituted in 1933. Of textbook Chinese manufacture, multi piece construction, red jade disk bearing an ornate textured design placed in the large silver setting in the centre, the disk surrounded by a ring of twenty five silver beads fronting a disk in silver with red enamels, in turn backed by a five pointed star, each of the star points in silver and blue enamels that are designed with multiple leaves and petals, all of which is