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    Medal for Bravery


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    Gents,

    on sale is following very nice object (#260450343137). This is quite new development, I must admit, very interesting idea. :lol:

    This red color- what could it be?

    w.

    I saw this on ebay, first time I have seen one like it, could be some kind of gell looking at it, who knows?

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    This is one of the things about ebay that makes collecting harder; here the person has 100% good feedback as a seller with 893 total to his/her name and now you wonder just how many items they sold are total crap!? :violent:

    How is a new collector supposed to defend against this without help through GOOD references and forums such as this?

    Tim

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    You are right, :cheers:

    There is a book about iron cross issued a couple of months ago in Munich. The book is sold off.

    A friend put it in that way: app. 7.000 of this award were awarded and there are 50.000 collectors and each of them has a original iron cross.

    It is huge forgery business.

    Of course we can not compare iron cross with this medal, but still forgery it is now in some areas and it will be in area of YU awards a huge business.

    Thats why the good references are now so important.

    We are still lucky that YU awards were not in scope of forgers but it will change with the time.

    w.

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    • 4 years later...

    Joking aside my opinion - definitely not original, when you take a look at photos from that period (1943 onward) ribbons on medals are with stripes, at least I've never seen anything different...

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    • 4 weeks later...

    You asked that the red color could be, the old Yugoslavian flag has blue, white, and red on it.

    The blue represents the sky.

    The white represents the air.

    And the red represents Bloody Land.

    So The red on the medal could possibly signify the Bloody land in which the medal could have been acquired.

    Don't take my word for it, but the 1912 and 1913 medals that are the same, do not have the red, they are all gold as the attachment below will show.

    So the only explanation is that your medal is reasonably rare, or that the previous owner thought it would look better if he painted it.

    And for those wondering, the medal goes by the name "medalja za hrabrost, miloš obilić"

    YU279a.jpg

    Edited by YugoToni
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    I think its more something like a Child playing around with red fingernail polish :D (for the "enameled" Bravery Medal)

    That is usually what happens when Orders and Medals aren't kept in lock and key :D

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    • 3 years later...
    On 16. 04. 2014. at 20:46, paja said:

    Joking aside my opinion - definitely not original, when you take a look at photos from that period (1943 onward) ribbons on medals are with stripes, at least I've never seen anything different...

    I'm quoting you because you've mentioned different variations of ribbons in another thread, so I wish we could discuss it it a proper thread.

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