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Reverse inscription reads 習志野 - Narasino (in japanese) Нарасино – Narasino (in russian)

Reverse

Obverse inscription reads 精勤 – diligence where 精 – energy/force 勤 – work.

Here how it looks like. Obverse

It is believed that about 80 000 Russians were captured in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The biggest POW camps were located at Osaka (25 000 POWs) and Narasino (15 000 POWs). Russians were well treated, able to write and receive mail, able to worship, had entertainment facilities, and were paid a work allowance. Officer and other ranks barracks were also maintained. Some of them even got a specially created silver medal (I think more correct name for this award will be a “token”). It was awarded to heads of barracks and prisoners that demonstrated “good conduct”. For obvious reasons this medal is pretty rare.

Raw beauty of Nakata

Another "super rarity"

Undoubtedly!

Same terribly looking ribbon... Same wrong box... At least the medal is original

Rings a bell? No?! Check out this thread http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/43766-the-holy-grail-is-this-authentic/?hl=taiwan#entry404876 And this is how this medal looks nowadays.

Box

I am sure that many of you remember this medal Wrong ribbon, wrong box, but nevertheless original medal ...

Rich :cheers:

Aha! Thanks a lot Rich! With such void stamping D indeed looks like J (or even like O) So these are time marks after all! Hurrraaah! One less mystery on our hands! P.S. Dieter gonna like this, since he always liked this "time marks" hypothesis while I was a little bit skeptical (to put it very mildly ) about it.

Obviously very old piece. Meiji era. I wonder who and where made this piece

Ribbon