Vietnam Civil Merit Order of Sip Hoc Chau Knight's Star 1950 (Tai Federation of Tonkin & Nung, French Indochina)

Tai Federation of Tonkin & Nung Autonomous 
Zone  - French Protectorate (Vietnam - French 
Indochina): 
Civil Merit Order of Sip Hoc Chau, Knight's Star.
The Order was instituted in 1950, in 5 classes. 
It was awarded to Vietnamese, French and 
Foreign nationals for exceptional services of 
civil nature. 
Inscribed "Tai Federation" in French and 
Vietnamese on the obverse and reverse. 
The Sip Song Chau Tai ("Twelve Tai Cantons") 
was a confederation of Tai chiefdoms in the 
mountainous NW Vietnam.
It became an autonomous part of the French 
protectorate of Tonkin, and thereby of French 
Indochina, in 1889. In 1948, during the 1st 
Indochina War, it was transformed into the Tai 
Federation, an autonomous component of the 
French Union. In 1950 it was made a crown 
domain of Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai 
without being integrated into the State of 
Vietnam. It was dissolved after the Geneva 
Agreements of 1954.
Given that it was awarded sparingly for just 4 
years, the Order is scarce.

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1950s

Item 100% original - ribbon original

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