Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 3rd type (1939-45), 1st Class, Reward of Gallantry, silver, gold and enamel, the reverse with screw-nut fitting and impressed on two lines ‘1st Class Order of Merit’, fitted with incorrect two-pronged silver riband buckle, extremely fine and very rare £1,200-£1,500

Provenance: Richard B. Magor Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, July 2003.

Only two awards of the 1st Class Order of Merit were made during the Second World War, although a number of specimens were no doubt manufactured.