Peru, Republic. An Order Of Merit For Distinguished Services, I Class Grand Cross Set By The Lima National Mint, C.1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 16 mm (w) x

measuring 16 mm (w) x 23 mm (h)

The tunic measures approximately 490 mm across the shoulders

The V-mail process is based on the earlier British Airgraph process

by Ronald Jack Scarlett

over ten weeks after the kidnapping

Peru, Republic. An Order Of Merit For Distinguished Services, I Class Grand Cross Set By The Lima National Mint, C.1960 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 16 mm (w) x(Orden al Mrito por Servicios Distinguidos). Instituted in 1950. A Grand Cross set, in silver gilt, the badge featuring an ovular badge with numerous patterned rays, the central medallion bears mountains, waves and sunrays with white and red enamels around the outside with the inscription AL MERITO POR SERVICIOS DISTINGUIDOS REPUBLICA PERUANA, the reverse is plain with a makers mark CASA NACIONAL DE MONEDA LIMA PERU, the badge is suspended from an