Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2014 Hong Kong Auction - Sess. A 18 August 2014
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CHINA. Order of Renaissance & Honor, 3rd Class Breast Badge, ND (Instituted 1937).
71.5 mm. Barac-457; cf.Werlich-238; Li-pg. 128. Gilt silver, blue enamel circular center medallion displays a golden rosette surrounded by five silver airplanes, five swallow-tail designs emanate from the center medallion in white, red and green enamel, and between these are pairs of golden wings. One red enamel star is present at the bottom, enumerating this piece as the Third Class, Early Type. Reverse numbered 293. With wide red stripe edged in white and bordered in blue ribbon. One chip to the blue enamel of the central medallion, otherwise very attractive. The top order of Nationalist China's Air Force, to qualify for the Third Class, a pilot must have shot down at least three enemy aircraft, had two hundred missions, and six hundred hours of flight time.
三等復興榮譽勳章。民國二十六年頒行。
鎏銀，中心梅花藍色琺瑯底，有五架飛機圖。五角星形設計，底下有一只紅色琺瑯質星，標示此為三等章。背面編號293。藍色琺瑯有一處缺損，其餘皆完好。此為空軍榮譽勳章，擊落敵機三架、作戰飛行二百次、作戰飛行六百小時，可獲頒此三等勳章。 EXTREMELY FINE.
71.5 mm. Barac-457; cf.Werlich-238; Li-pg. 128. Gilt silver, blue enamel circular center medallion displays a golden rosette surrounded by five silver airplanes, five swallow-tail designs emanate from the center medallion in white, red and green enamel, and between these are pairs of golden wings. One red enamel star is present at the bottom, enumerating this piece as the Third Class, Early Type. Reverse numbered 293. With wide red stripe edged in white and bordered in blue ribbon. One chip to the blue enamel of the central medallion, otherwise very attractive. The top order of Nationalist China's Air Force, to qualify for the Third Class, a pilot must have shot down at least three enemy aircraft, had two hundred missions, and six hundred hours of flight time.
三等復興榮譽勳章。民國二十六年頒行。
鎏銀，中心梅花藍色琺瑯底，有五架飛機圖。五角星形設計，底下有一只紅色琺瑯質星，標示此為三等章。背面編號293。藍色琺瑯有一處缺損，其餘皆完好。此為空軍榮譽勳章，擊落敵機三架、作戰飛行二百次、作戰飛行六百小時，可獲頒此三等勳章。 EXTREMELY FINE.