Japan. A Naval Officer's Cap Badge, C.1940 Newly Listed DALRYMPLE)

DALRYMPLE)

Footnote: Gold War Decoration (KD) was produced for a very short time in 1914/early 1915

scattered flaking otherwise the enamels are intact

measures 104 mm (w) x 144 mm (h)

Japan. A Naval Officer's Cap Badge, C.1940 Newly Listed DALRYMPLE)Gilt fouled anchor with gold coloured bullion wire, mounted to a central medallion with a black wool background, the medallion ringed in two rows of gold colored wire and placed upon a wreath fabricated from gold coloured bullion wire, each of the veins in the leafing highlighted by rolled gold coloured copper wire, with fine copper wire below the medallion at the junction of the wreath leafing, the wreath surmounted by a silvered metal cherry