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Fake. All original badges were manufactured by J R Gaunt & Son, Birmingham.

Issued on 大正十四年十月三日 = October 3, 1925 陸軍下土適任證書 - Certificate of the Suitability for the Army 陸軍步兵上等兵 - Army Infantry Senior Soldier 岩名三郎 - Iwana Saburō 步兵科下土適任 - Suitable for Infantry NCO School/Course

By these photos looks like original piece. Even the ribbon looks original.

Thanks David. That is one serious attitude towards cataloging. By the way, do you have Kure long-service badge for 30 years? The most beautiful of all of them.

Looks like you have more certificates than badges. Quite unique situation. Usually it's vice versa.

You will find basic info about early types of docs here. Yes, they are. No, they would`t. For example

The case (as well as the badge for Ōtani-ha) was made by Tokyo workshop Gyokuhōdō.

All cases are original to the badges except this one. Inscription reads 通常 - normal/regular 會員章 - membership badge No name of the organization but I know this case (and its manufacturer). The badge that should be inside such case. 真宗大谷派 - Ōtani-ha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōtani-ha

Many thanks for the photos David.

Nice badges. All round service badges are made by Suya Shoten workshop. Pretty soon I hope to launch my website devoted to Asian medals, order and badges (Imperial Japan and satellite states, Imperial China, Korea (1900-1910), Persia and probably early days (pre 1917) of Mongolian orders. Special section will be devoted to Imperial Russia awards. Workshops marks and labels, variations, original regulations, documents. Stuff like that. A special section will be devoted to these badges (I have about a dozen of them in my collection but any additional high quality photos of such material are more that welcome). So watch this space

Current structure of the order.

This thread belongs to the chinese secion of the forum. P.S. The correct name of this order 景星勳章/景星勋章/Order of Brilliant Star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Brilliant_Star

Well, judge for yourself https://www.emedals.com/europe/italy/badges/air-force Best, Nick

If my memory serves me right the badge without crown was originally intended for civil pilot's (pilota brevetto 1° grado) but after september 1943 was used as military pilot badge by RSI.

Nice badges. Classical Johnson. This type of badge was introduced in 1935 and was in use until 1943. Illustration from 1937 regulation. Doc that would be accompanied by such wings (this example from 1938).

Most likely this is a badge for an instructor of association since one of its objectives was "military education and training". But the exact "destination" of these badges is not known to me (as per today). P.S. Replica of this badge from (the very same) Nakata.

Nakata showed a later variant of this badge in his catalogue. Source.

Yes, obvious connection with Imperial Military Reserve Association. "Time served" is a very unfortunate (and wrong) translation of 帝国在郷軍人会. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Aug., 1971), pp. 815-828

This piece was made by Chobillon, Paris. 1912 catalogue. Source.

In wear.

100 anniversary of the Paulovskiy infantry school badge. Established on December 7, 1898. The monogram of Nicholas II is lost.

Fake. Chistopol school of warrant officers/Szkole chorąży Chistopolskiej https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chistopol

It`s not the questions of "how many badges were needed" in order to "fulfill". It`s the question of choice. What badge in what material and what quality one needed (or could afford). + Naturally there were thousands and thousands of potential cavaliers.

There were at least a dozen of different manufactures of these badges. For example this is how details of the badge from the Shafer workshop looks like. I wonder how (and why) anyone should compare officially made orders with privately made badges. Once again: Keibel and Eduard pieces are very similiar because they were official contractors (and should follow strict Kapitul requirements).