Badge and star: Order of the Rising Sun

Awarded to Adm Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher. Badge: A cabochon granet from which spring thirty two rays of white enamel edged gold, which hangs from a spray of three paulownia flowers and leaves enamelled in their proper colours. Suspended by a ring from a sash of red with white edges (wrong ribbon, that of the order of the Pawlonia Flowers). Star: The badge without the paulonia flowers superimposed on a similar shaped silver star of eight points. Uniface with brooch pin on the reverse.

Object Details

ID: MED2719
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Order
Display location: Not on display
People: Fisher, John Arbuthnot
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: badge: 88 mm; star: 93 mm
Parts: Badge and star: Order of the Rising Sun
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