with the handwritten inked message “With love & best wishes for your birthday Aunt Alice”
Halsdekoration Museumsstück)
smooth black backer
silvered nickel eagle and shield insignia
otherwise enamels fully intact
Japan, Imperial. An Order of the Sacred Treasure, II Class Star in Case visually-hidden with the handwritten inked message(, Zuihsh). Instituted in 1888. Type I (1888 2003). In silver gilt, an eight point star with clusters of white enamelled rays, separated by a single short blue ray, the obverse medallion featuring a silver flower on a blue enamelled field, encircled by a silver gilt ring along with sixteen red glass cabochons, reverse bears a tripronged pin and larch catch, with four rivets and central kanji, measures 74 mm (w) x 73. 9 mm (h), weighs 97. 86 grams,