Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Foundation Merit Medal GTRexclude exhibiting a yellowish tint to

exhibiting a yellowish tint to the bone

measuring 127 mm (w) x 22 mm (h))

In silver with withe blue and white enamelled insignia

material fatigue of the ribbon evident

measuring 141 mm (w) x 216 mm (h)

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Foundation Merit Medal GTRexclude exhibiting a yellowish tint toInstituted in 1933. In blackened bronze, measuring 30. 3 mm in diameter, edge nicks, very light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, near extremely fine. Footnote: The National Foundation Merit Medal was instituted on March 1, 1933, to acknowledge those who had been instrumental in establishing the new "independent" Great Manchu State. In 1934, it became the "Great Manchu Empire" and this medal was thus the first and last decoration of the