France, Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise; together with original certificate of award, dated 23 December 1946, and other correspondence named to ‘Miss E. Violet Hoare’; also included with the lot is a grooved steel pin, 11cm long, this was reputedly a stabbing implement used by S.O.E. agents, and would have originally been concealed within a pencil, extremely fine £40-60