Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Auction Archive A First War Memorial Cross

A First War Memorial Cross to the First Ontario Regiment - (6854 Pte J

clutching a blue enameled disc with a central gilt Lufthansa insignia

A table paperweight with a stamped feinzink disk depicting a Wehrmacht soldier

on ribbon bar for suspension

British War and Victory Medals (CH

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Auction Archive A First War Memorial CrossInstituted in 1940. In silver, measuring 30. 5 mm in diameter, scattered tarnishing, light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: In 1935, the Special Service Bureau of the Kwantung Army announced plans to build a Shinto shine in Manchukuo, to ""promote friendship between Japan and Manchukuo, and dedicated to the Sun Goddess, the Emperor Meiji, and the Manchu ancestors"". During the war years, the Japanese Army