Peterson Mistake Regarding Marshal Badge Reverse Inscription

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In his Orders and Medals of Japan and Associated States

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James Peterson give the following discription of Marshal Badge.

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In fact these seal characters denoting not "the month and year of the award" but the month and year of the badge establishment.

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明治三十一年五制定 - Established in May of 1898
 
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