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Please meet Sr. Leutenant of airforce Chufarov Anatoly Vasilevich, born 1923, a squadron leader (3 aircraft) of 237th ShAP (assault air regiment) of 305th ShAD (assult air division). In service since June 1941. In active service since September 1943 on the South-Western front and 3rd Ukrainian front. Awards: Red Star, Patriotic War I, Red Banner 98061 on 12/Jun/1944 (this one), Patriotic War II, Red Banner. The heros signature is on the second page of the register card.

Hello Ron! Welcome to the club! Yes, the numbers are traceable in most of the cases. You can find out the name and other information about the recepient. Sometimes the citations are quite facinating indeed! With some extra efford more information can be gathered about the soldier, his unit and the circumstances of his service. I can help with tracing the hero's name and with the research on him and his unit. I will send you a PM. I am a new colletor and focus primarily on the awards with provenance. Find it more important than just numismatic aspect, which often dominates. Will soon lay out the research on the a couple of Red Banner orders from my collection. Kind regards/ Igor

Spectacular!

Thank you all! The order is genuine and I added it to my collection. I will soon present you the research on the officer awarded this order. He was a pilot flying IL-2 assault aircraft.

Hello, Please comment. The ribbon is replacement I presume. The Cross was instituted on 25 November (7 December) 1913 to be awarded to military and civilians for meritorious service during the First and Second Balkan Wars of 1912-1913. An alliance of Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Serbia threw the Ottoman Turks out of almost all their remaining European territories in 1912 and the First Balkan War ended with the Treaty of London on 30 May 1913. The Cross was made by Arthus Bertrand of Paris and Huguenin Frères of Le Locle, Switzerland.

Hello, What do you think about this one? It is really my first acquisition of a German bar, so I am a but blank here. Any comments are welcome. Bar: Rotes Kreuz Medaille & Kreuz Kriegshilfsdienst. Were there a Red Cross medal in zink?

Interesting! The whole life of a man in front of you...

That what they say: one man's trash is an other man's treasure!

Hej Michael, Here is the scan from the Royal and State-calendar. But I see almost exclussivly danes. Am I looking at a wrong medal?

Curious about the price... My impression is either you get very lucky, or sellers imagine that what they have is very-very expensive.

Also one thing I remember is that the real Star has 4,5 jewels in the Crowns arm. Here is on the right is Alex's star. On the lest is the star from OP.

God bless their souls! I think, the medals could have ended up on the same bar because a family member mounted them together.

Just got the lot for 180USD including all the charges. I think it is OK price. Encourage me! Increasd my Japanese collection from zero to something. Don't know why the photos are horizontal.

If you are sure it is gold, then it must be 8 carat model. The Frederik IIX gold medal wad struk in 24 carat gold in 1906-1909. And 1909 to 1912 in 8 carat. The later must see whiter. I think yours is 8 carat then. About the recipient list, let's see what Michael has to say.

Exciting stuff!

Just one correction. This medal is not in god. I think I wad deceived by yellowish glow on the photo. It is a silver medal without crown. The list should be much longer than 99. But in the Royal Calender, there are almost no foreign names (except one Norwegian) for 1906-1912 period. Just been to the library. If you trust, that this group is not artifitially made, then an option could be, that this medal was given without suspension piece, i.e. without right to bear. But the owner ordered privatly the suspention to be added. I say so, brcause the Danish Royal Calender only mentions medals with bearing permission (in that period anyway). Maybe it is time you show us the whole group. Don't be shy!

OK, OK. I understood that it was mainly Christian IX who was known to hand out these medals liberally without much paperwork. Or paperwork that was supposed to be done later, which often never happen properly. But the later Dansh monarchs introduced more order into this process. So I was hopping that the Frederik IIX pulled himself together and streamlined the process. Though I am afraid it actually happened much later. So THAT is why I was thinking to be able to find the list in the "Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender".

Michael, don't you think the list should be in the "Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender"?

So, Andreas, you know the name already?

Hello Andreas. I don't have the rolls. I might have an idea where to look them up in the archive or library. But this may take some time and I am curently top busy at work.

Right, the VM is the one most interesting here.

OK. But lets also explain for others shell they be interested. The rest of the medals are worn in the order as registered in the Geraldic Register. Simply speaking by date of issue. So it is easier than we thought.

He-he... Haven't you got your answer already, Канадец?

Thanks! So you think I should invest? How would you value the whole lot? Feel like an idiot, not being able to read Japanese...

It is a gold medal without crown. 99 awards in 6 years. So the potential list is bot that long. But probably there were several German awardees, so without extra information it cannot be identified. Hpw does the reverse look like?