"Sick" Orders of the Paulownia Flowers
Same set in different settings.
Obvious signs of repair.
Case and ribbon.
Obvious signs of repair.
Case and ribbon.
By some unknown reason orders of the Paulownia Flowers more often than others Japanese orders become victims of this sickness.
Set without breast star.
Set without breast star.
Familiar symptoms on the badges from 1915
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Order of the Paulownia Flowers of Sir William Conyngham Greene
Awarded on November 1915.
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Another victim
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Orders of the Paulownia Flowers from Meiji/Taisho Epoch
Note that some sets could belong even to late 1920s, i.e. to early Showa era. Sash. Rosette.
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Order of the Paulownia Flowers and other Awards of General of the Armies John Pershing
Badge became a victim of well-known disease https://asiamedals.info/threads/sick-orders-of-the-paulownia-flowers.14965/ Silver, gild, enamel. Breast star. Silver, gild, enamel. Enamel of central medallion was restored (quite terribly too). Same goes for the enamel in ray at 3 o'clock...
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