China, Republic. An Order of the Striped Tiger, VII Class

(Tiáowén hǔ xūnzhāng). Instituted in 1912. Three-piece construction, illustrating a striped tiger in yellow, brown, light blue and green enamels on the centrepiece, mounted to an eight-pointed star, each star point with six emanating rays, with a cluster of three stars affixed to the star point at 12 o'clock designating the award as a VII Class Knight, all of which is mounted to an eight-pointed star base, with each of the star points in red, blue, yellow, black and white enamels, hallmark and digital mark on the reverse, measuring 53.6 mm (w) x 58.1 mm (h) inclusive of its laterally-pierced ball suspension, worn on a replacement ribbon of the order, contact marks evident on the reverse, near extremely fine.