Japan. A Naval Officer's Cap Badge, c.1940
Gilt fouled anchor with gold-coloured bullion wire, mounted to a central medallion with a black wool background, the medallion ringed in two rows of gold-colored wire and placed upon a wreath fabricated from gold-coloured bullion wire, each of the veins in the leafing highlighted by rolled gold-coloured copper wire, with fine copper wire below the medallion at the junction of the wreath leafing, the wreath surmounted by a silvered metal cherry blossom, all on a black wool base, black paper backer is torn in one area exposing the underlying black wool support, 79 mm (w) x 62 mm (h), extremely fine.

