Japan, Manchukuo. An Order of the Auspicious Clouds, I Class Set in Case Archive maker marked "ВОЕНН

maker marked "ВОЕНН

Footnote: Josef Kociok (1918–1943) was a pilot in the Luftwaffe on the Eastern Front and a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross

1918 for service with the French Army of the Orient

Awarded for the election and arrival of Ferdinand Saxe Coburg and Gotha of Knyaz of Bulgaria

Footnote: Walter Allan Dicks was born on December 6

Japan, Manchukuo. An Order of the Auspicious Clouds, I Class Set in Case Archive maker marked "ВОЕНН(Ta Hsan Wei Lan Hua Chang). Instituted on March 1 1934 by Emperor Kang Teh of Machuria. A beautiful and rare set of the Order of the Auspicious Clouds, presenting a sash badge in silver gilt, a four point star with clusters of three rays, the central enamelled in white with each flanking ray in yellow, between each cluster of rays sits a blue enamelled cloud and the space below enamelled in black, the obverse medallion with a central yellow field