Japan, Manchukuo. An Order of the Auspicious Clouds, I Class Set in Case Newly Listed with commemorative swords

with commemorative swords

This is a textbook example of a well preserved first pattern early Luftwaffe dagger by a rare maker

Mackay with a strength of 20 officers and 427 other ranks

and exhibiting the manufacturing characteristics of Godet

Japan, Manchukuo. An Order of the Auspicious Clouds, I Class Set in Case Newly Listed with commemorative swords(Ta Hsan Wei Lan Hua Chang). Instituted on March 1 1934 by Emperor Kang Teh of Machuria. A beautiful and rare set of the Order of the Auspicious Clouds, presenting a sash badge in silver gilt, a four point star with clusters of three rays, the central enamelled in white with each flanking ray in yellow, between each cluster of rays sits a blue enamelled cloud and the space below enamelled in black, the obverse medallion with a central yellow field