Japan. A Red Cross Society Men's Membership Medal Buy Now in worn condition

in worn condition

" with the exclamation mark to the end of the motto

engraved in outstanding running script ""No

Tearing and fatigue evident

in solid silver (marked inside of the ring "830 S J

Japan. A Red Cross Society Men's Membership Medal Buy Now in worn conditionIn silver, unmarked, measuring 29. 5 mm, original ribbon with hook and eye, tarnishing evident on the reverse, near extremely fine. Footnote: The forerunner of the Japanese Red Cross Society, the Hakuaisha (Philanthropic Society) was founded in 1877 by Court Tsunetami Sano, to help those who were wounded in the Satsuma Rebellion earlier that year. Japan signed the Geneva Convention in 1886 and in the following year, the Hakuaisha changed its name to