Portugal, Kingdom. An Order of Christ, Pendant in Diamonds and Garnets, c.1790 Province of China Dicks returned to Air Force

Dicks returned to Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa before being transferred to Eastern Air Command in Halifax

A rare SA-Gruppe Pommern (Pomerania) garrison cap for a General’s equivalent rank (Gruppenführer/Untergruppenführer)

base with a raised platform incorporating a recessed medal bed in violet felt

particularly in the fields of discipline

(Heer Ärmelschilder)

Portugal, Kingdom. An Order of Christ, Pendant in Diamonds and Garnets, c.1790 Province of China Dicks returned to Air Force(Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Cristo). Instituted in 1318. In silver gilt, the arms set with twenty one garnets, with an interior silver cross set with seventeen genuine old rose cut diamonds, suspended from a foliate spray motif with center pear shaped diamond and additional rose cut diamonds in the leaves, measures 27. 2 mm (w) x 46. 78mm (h), weighs 11. 15 grams, scratches to the stones, loss of gilt, a very rare and aged decoration, in extremely fine