Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Hold Buckle has almost new condition

Buckle has almost new condition brown frog marked Berg Nolte A

Merit Medal for the Crossing of Enemy Lines after September 8

with the ribbons also bearing an Austro-Hungarian Navy visor cap insignia

The handle grip is composed of two pieces of marbled jade-green bakelite fastened together with non-ferrous metal rivets

1944 to March 4

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Hold Buckle has almost new conditionInstituted in 1940. In silver, measuring 30. 5 mm in diameter, scattered tarnishing, light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: In 1935, the Special Service Bureau of the Kwantung Army announced plans to build a Shinto shine in Manchukuo, to ""promote friendship between Japan and Manchukuo, and dedicated to the Sun Goddess, the Emperor Meiji, and the Manchu ancestors"". During the war years, the Japanese Army