France, III & IV Republics. A Lot Of Four Awards & Decorations Buy Now sixty years ago

sixty years ago

A 1941-45 Croatian Order of King Zvonimir with Swords

Footnote: The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China

3 mm (h) inclusive of its integral ring)

Austria would not be part of that development until the so called Anschluss (annexation) in 1938

France, III & IV Republics. A Lot Of Four Awards & Decorations Buy Now sixty years agoTwo Third Republic awards: 1. Order of the Legion of Honour, Knight (Ordre de la Lgion d'Honneur, Chevalier). Instituted in 1802 (in silver with red, white, blue and green enamels, Gold centrepieces, hallmarked with a boar's head in the tassels on the obverse, measuring 40. 2 mm (w) x 59 mm (h) inclusive of its wreath and laterally pierced ball suspension, chipping evident in the white and green enamels on the arms and wreath on both sides, original