Badges, watch fobs and medals made by Naigai Medal Works/内外徽章製作所

Tokyo-based workshop that was one of the Japan's largest pre-war manufacturers of badges and watch fobs.

 

Let's take a look inside the company's catalogs.

1928 catalogue - year of Emperor Showa enthronement.

Inside.

 

Catalogue No. 28 published in 1927.

 

Catalogue No 47.

 

1935 advertising leaflet.

神社仏閣教化団体徽章之栞 - Badges of Shrines and Buddhist Temples

Inside.

 

Advertising postcard.

 

Catalogue No. 40 published in Fall 1931.

Inside.

 

Advertising leaflet No.2.

栞之章徽 - Guidebook to Badges

セルロイド製 - Made of Celluloid

 

Another exemplar of catalogue No.28 from 1927.

 

Naigai "Catalogue of Medals No. 37".

"New-Fashioned Medals".

 

Award trophies catalogue "No.6 New Style".

 

Thanks to the cover of catalogue "No.42" we know who manufactured Japanese Wound badges of 1st type.
Note also Army War College Graduation badge https://asiamedals.info/forums/army-war-college-graduation-badges.640/
Central Union of Co-operative Societies in Japan merit medal https://asiamedals.info/threads/central-union-of-co-operative-societies-in-japan-merit-medals.27633/

 

1932 Naigai workshop Games of the X Olympiad commemorative catalogue of medals.

第拾回国際オリムピック競技大会記念号 - 1st International Olympic Games Commemorative Issue

 

Naigai Naigai Medal Works newspaper advertisement.

 

1929 Army Special Large Maneuvers Participation Commemorative Watch Fobs/昭和四年拾壱月陸軍特別大演習参加記念章

1st variation. Obverse 南軍司官白川大将 - South Army Commander General Shirakawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Shirakawa 北軍司官白井上大将 - North Army Commander General Inoue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadae_Inoue reverse 陸軍特別大演習 - Army Special Large Maneuvers 参加記念章 - Participation...

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1933 Army Special Large Maneuvers Fukui Prefecture Police Commemorative Watch Fob/昭和八年十月陸軍特別大演習警衛福井縣紀念章

Watch fob issued for the members of Fukui prefecture police force. Obverse 紀念 - Commemorative reverse 陸軍特別大演習警衛 - Army Special Large Maneuvers Guard [Service] 福井縣 - Fukui Prefecture 昭和八年十月 - October 1933 Marked 純銀 - pure silver.

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Toyama Prefecture Firefighting Association Commemorative Badge/富山縣消防義會記念章

Reverse 消防記念章 - Firefighting Commemorative Badge 富山縣 - Toyama Prefecture 消防義會 - Firefighting Association Original case. 記念章 - Commemorative Badge 富山縣消防義會 - Toyama Prefecture Firefighting Association Badges were made by the Naigai workshop in Tokyo...

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Imperial Military Reservist Association Teshima Ward Ikebukuro No.2 Branch Merit Badge/帝国在郷軍人会豊島区池袋第二分会功勞章

Ikebukuro branch badges https://asiamedals.info/threads/imperial-military-reservist-association-2nd-group-of-ikebukuro-branch-diligence-badge.29288/ ; https://asiamedals.info/threads/imp...sociation-ikebukuro-branch-merit-badge.29275/ ...

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1928 Enthronement Ceremony Nihon University Kendo Club Commemorative Watch Fob/1928年日本大學剣道部御大禮紀念参加章

Specimen from the collection of Raymond LaBar. Photos courtesy of the owner. Obverse 剣 for 剣道 - Kendo reverse 御大禮紀念 - Enthronement Ceremony Commemorative 日本大學剣道部 - Nihon University Kendo Club 2588 - 1928 Original case. 参加章 - Participation Commemorative Badge 日本大學剣道部 - Nihon...

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1933 Kanto Large Air Defense Maneuvers Takinogawa Ward Air Defense Corps Participation Watch Fob/瀧野川區防護團關東防空大演習参加章

See also https://asiamedals.info/threads/1933-kanto-large-air-defense-maneuvers-koishikawa-ward-air-defense-corps-participation-commemorative-badge.25039/ Size 34.5 x 30.5 mm. Thickness 2.6 mm. Obverse 關東防空大演習記念 - Kanto Large Air Defense Maneuvers 参加章 - Participation Badge reverse...

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