Chile, Republic. An Order Of Merit, Ii Class Knight C.1910 GTRexclude 1944 and signed in blue

1944 and signed in blue ink by a Major and Deputy Department Chief of the Main Department of the General Staff of the Army

with a red wool winged propeller insignia and the number “1”) stitched onto the obverse

Footnote: The Order claims descent from Godfrey de Bouillon and the knights who protected the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem at the time of the first Crusade

The blades are single edged with decorative file work known as "jimping" on the unsharpened back edge of the blade

which was occupied at that time by Nazi Germany

Chile, Republic. An Order Of Merit, Ii Class Knight C.1910 GTRexclude 1944 and signed in blue(Orden al Mrito). Instituted 1906. Type I. 1906 1911 issue. An early example consisting of a ball tipped five pointed star in silvered bronze, featuring solid laurel wreath in each quadrant also in silvered bronze, the obverse centre in silver exhibiting a female head denoting the republic government, surrounded by the inscription REPUBLICA DE CHILE (Republic of Chile), the reverse centre also in silver depicting a laurel branch with the inscription