Two Thai Service Medals; Border & East Asia Combat Auction with a reverse exhibiting signs

with a reverse exhibiting signs of wear

"at times it gets larger and is painful especially on bending over"

weighing 103 grams each

with ribbed grip on the bronze handle

enamel chipping evident on the insignia

Two Thai Service Medals; Border & East Asia Combat Auction with a reverse exhibiting signsEast Asia Combat Service Medal (1941 1945) (silvered metal, 38. 3 mm); and Border Service Medal (bronze gilt, 38. 5 mm, missing its lotus leaf suspension). Each with original ribbons and suspended from inscribed spear hangers with pinbacks, contact marks on the reverse of the BSM, very fine. Footnote: The East Asia Combat Service Medal was issued in 1942, to be awarded to Thai military who served in the East Asia theatre during the Second World War.