One of my customer wants to spend $300 - $500 for an award
to congratulate someone for achieving an honor similar to knighthood or
honorary president.

What would you suggest?

Visions has some really nice unique and expensive awards.

http://www.visionsmfg.com/2006/

I was kind of thinking of Visions. It is very expensive in Canada

By the way, the link on your website to visions is not functioning

This is interesting, do you have a link?

This is for someone who was bestowed a title like Honorary Mayor of a big city. My customer wants to congratulate him and create a piece for his office

I've seen others get a nice large sword, mount it on a wooden plaque with felt behind it and engrave a dedication plaque to go on it. With the right sword and everything, this can be a very impressive award...but you usually have to do some of the work yourself...

Mike