France, Second Empire. An Order of the Legion of Honour, Knight, c.1870 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac at the end maker

at the end maker

COWLING / No 1 Gen Hospital / Canadian Expeditionary Force" on the reverse

named to "Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub" in black text

5 mm (w) x 28 mm (h) each

France, Second Empire. An Order of the Legion of Honour, Knight, c.1870 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac at the end maker(Ordre National de la Lgion d'honneur). Instituted in 1802. 1852 1870 Issue. In silver with blue, white and green enamels, Gold centrepieces, laterally pierced ball suspension, hallmarked with a boar's head on the tip of the ribbon on the obverse, measuring 32. 8 mm (w) x 51. 4 mm (h) inclusive of its crown suspension, weighs 12. 55 grams, chipping and crazing evident in the white enamels on the arms and in the blue enamels on the centrepiece rings on