1936 Akagi Maru Launching Commemorative Tie Clip/1936年日本郵船株式會社赤城丸進水記念ネクタイピン

Silver, enamel.
Length 60 mm.

Pin marked "Silver" and inscribed

赤城丸進水記念 - Akagimaru Launching Commemorative

Original case.

日本郵船株式會社 - NYK Line

赤城丸進水記念 - Akagimaru Launching Commemorative

Pin were made in Tokyo by Ando Shippo /安藤七寶店/ workshop.

Interesting information leaflet of Ando workshop about Japanese cloisonné.

 

Akagi Maru was one of three Akagi Maru-class armed merchantmen of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was launched on June 6, 1936. Akagi Maru was used initially used as a refrigerated cargo/passenger ship between ports in Japan, Europe and South America. The ship took part in World War II in the Pacific Ocean and was sunk with great loss of life by air attack on 17 February 1944 in Chuuk Lagoon as a part of the Allied Operation Hailstone.​