Pair of Chinese military service rank badges, front and back squares each couched with a qilin on a black ground amid Daoist treasures and clouds executed in silver and gilt metallic threads, frame: 14.5"w; Provenance: from the Holman Estate in Pacific Grove. The Holman family were early residents of the Monterey Peninsula and established Holman's Department Store in the center of Pacific Grove in what was the only "high rise" in the town, having three floors plus the basement and solarium. The building still remains in the center of Pacific Grove with the magnificent stained glass window in the front; this lot is being sold for the first time by the heirs.