Japanese Awards and box - Opinions and Price?

[wschmidt]

Hello People,

I have these 5 Japanese Awards. All have your box and are Near Mint or Mint Condition. Some opinion?

I don't know almost nothing of Japanese Militarie. But they are wonderful!!! How much cost these 5 Awards of this skill?

Regards,

Schmidt

[wschmidt]

[wschmidt]

[zachb]

Schmidt,

-You have two Red Cross Membership medals (see post #2, picture 1)

-Two Rising Sun medals: Seventh Class (see post #2, picture 2), Eight Class (see post #2, picture 3). On the Seventh Class I would expect to see enamel on the reverse as well, this may indicate post war or a copy?

-China Incident War Medal (post #3, picture 1 and 2)

Nice to have all the awards in the cases. Know that in all honesty these are probably among the most common Japanese medals and awards, but as you said the condition is excellent. I am not 100% that both Red Cross medals and the Rising Sun medals are pre -1945. You will have to check other threads to see further discussion about dating for these. As to values...the market on Japanese medals has stabilized, in my opinion, Ebay is a good indicator on current prices.

Zach

[plmurphy]

The Rising Sun 7th class is a post war version (actually scarcer than pre war) and so is the Red Cross Special Member Medal (the one with the rosette). The combined price for all of these 5 medals together would be about $180 if I were selling them.

Regards,

Paul