A Japanese Order Of The Rising Sun Medal Bar GTRexclude At the end of January

At the end of January 1944

dark patina on the cross

marked "PATENTED MAY 18

"The Sorrows of Young Werther"

A Japanese Order Of The Rising Sun Medal Bar GTRexclude At the end of JanuaryA Pre Second War Japanese Medal Bar of Six Awards, on Japanese style chromed alloy medal bar, consisting of 1) A Japanese Order of the Rising Sun; 5th Class; in silver with white enamels; the obverse with a centered red glass cabochon; measuring 67 mm x 46 mm (inclusive of its Paulownia flower suspension, but without its vertically pierced ball for ribbon suspension); original ribbon with hook and eye; cracking of the enamel at the twelve oclock sun