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Breast star
Obverse
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See what I am talking about?
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Early badges (and breast stars) have more rich yellow.
It is practically orange.
But scans and photos can be very tricky.
Previous posts show natural, real life colors of enamel.
This is what you can do with a little tooling
Actual color
Clarified variant
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Typical for early badges narrow cabochon ring
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Upper ray
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Back of suspension
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Reverse
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Perfect enamel - only typical (for non-posthumous awards) mini cracks on upper ray
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Details
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Time for a sach badge examination
Obverse
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This one was sold once by W. & F.C. Bonham & Son, Ltd.
Same birdies
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Actually only twice have I seen such interior
Second time it was Peterson 3rd edition.
On jacket back
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Cootchy cootchy coo
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Only earlier boxes for this order has birdies on lining
Later boxes have dark blue lining
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Inside
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Bottom of the box
"Nut and honey"
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Hecho a mano
Sweet!
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Chrysanthemum
Inscription
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In commemoration of Christmas and New Year
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year dear friends and colleagues!!!
大勲位菊花大綬章
Daikun’i Kikka Daiju-shō
大 - Large
勲位 - Order of Merit
菊花 - Chrysanthemum
大 - Grand
綬章 - CordonStraight from Meiji epoch
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Note interesting heads of revets
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# 2742 made by St.Petersburg mint
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Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum at Christmas
in Japan
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Very weak gilt - typical for early badges