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29 March 2012

Hammer Price:
£9,200

Japan, Order of the Rising Sun with Pawlonia Flowers, Grand Cordon set of insignia, sash badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with red cabochon centre; breast star, silver-gilt and enamel, with red cabochon centre, reverse inscribed with four Japanese characters, with full and evening sashes, in slightly damaged slip-top lacquer case of issue, complete with cords but lacking internal pad, star with some hairline cracks to white enamel, good very fine and scarce (2)
£8000-10000

The Order was generally awarded to Japanese and foreign royalty, nobility and high dignitaries.

With printed card, ‘Sir Conyngham Greene, Ambassador Extraordinaire et Plenipotentiaire de S.M. Britannique’; additionally inscribed, ‘Presented to me by Japanese Govt. Nov. 1915.’