United States. A Sino-American Order of the Imperial Dragon, c.1900 Auction with large sunburst fastening screw

with large sunburst fastening screw plate on reverse

The liner peels back to reveal plain black vulcanfibre shell walls

all suspended from a 138 mm-long bronze bar with a maroon wool reverse liner and horizontal pinback

200 railcars

United States. A Sino-American Order of the Imperial Dragon, c.1900 Auction with large sunburst fastening screw(Order of the Imperial Dragon, Bronze Decoration). Constructed of bronze gilt, with a voided tilted square in the centre, on a fixed loop and swivel ring for suspension from its period original ribbon with a leftward facing elongated dragon pinback suspension, the obverse with the letters C. R. E and the date 1900 in simulated Chinese character strokes, surrounded by the inscription Not to Conquer but to Save, the reverse number impressed 377,