Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Hold Merit Medal for the Crossing

Merit Medal for the Crossing of Enemy Lines after September 8

with the ribbons also bearing an Austro-Hungarian Navy visor cap insignia

The handle grip is composed of two pieces of marbled jade-green bakelite fastened together with non-ferrous metal rivets

with a mint and unused period-original ribbon and an equally mint “Hoheitszeichen” (national eagle for ribbon attachment)

- In zinc

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Hold Merit Medal for the CrossingInstituted 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