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    Decorations from the collections of the Serbian museums


    paja

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    I really like that M51. I have never seen one of those before. Also, those are some amazing medal bars.

    Those Yugoslav M51 submachine guns (cal 7.62mm), also known as Matić-Cvetić prototypes, were made especially for the Day of the Army (22. December) in a very limited number and were given to high officials, Tito's generals. I have read somewhere that the name of the receiver was inscribed on every piece.

    Last year I was able to see in person and take a picture of the piece that used to belong to General Koča Popović.

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    -Military Museum

    -official website: http://www.muzej.mod.gov.rs/en/#.UXANFLVgfgt

    -pictures are from this website: http://www.27march.org/main.php?languages_id=2

    After the death of Prince Arsen, brother of King Petar I, his son Prince Pavle (Prince Paul of Yugoslavia) gave all of his decorations to the Military Museum. Today only 4 of them are still kept in the museum, everything else was lost after the war.

    Emperor Alexander III Commemorative Medal

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    Russian-Japanese War 1904-05 Commemorative Medal

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    Golden Bravery Medal Miloš Obilić - Huguenin

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    Order of the Star of Karageorge 4th grade - G.A. Scheid

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    -National Museum Kraljevo

    -official website: http://nmkv.rs/

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    Thanks Paul, even though there are a lot of museums in Serbia most of their websites are unfortunately either obsolete or very poor when it comes to presentation. Whatever I manage to find I'll put here. :)

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    Couple of interesting items from the collection of the Military Museum, again.

    Order of the Star of Karageorge with Swords 1st grade - Arthus Bertrand [belonged to Vojvoda Živojin Mišić]

    Medal for Devotion

    Order of Miloš the Great 3rd grade - K. Fleischhacker [belonged to Marko Lazarević]

    Order of the White Eagle with Swords 5th grade with Three Oak Branches! - Arthus Bertrand [belonged to Major Dragomir Mladenović]

    Order of National Liberation #199 - Scarce Soviet type! (Monetny Dvor)

    Order of the Yugoslav Star with Golden Wreath (1st type?)

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    Greetings Rogi, here are couple of pictures of that decoration from the Military Museum. By the way there is a scarce Medal of Queen Draga on ebay right now, starting price was 0.99$ and it went up to almost 2.000$!

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    Greetings Paul,

    I believe that the medal that was on ebay was genuine. I don't like using pictures from ebay but here goes.

    http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2013/post-7937-0-15279200-1366628875.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2013/post-7937-0-99489900-1366628896.jpg

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    You are welcome Paul. Here is one interesting picture of Đorđe Vajfert (Georg Weifert) with his wife Marija wearing Princess Natalija medal.

    Kind regards,

    Radmilo

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    Pictures from the exhibition "1941 - 70 years later" held at the White Palace. They can be found on the Royal Family of Serbia website.

    http://royalfamily.org/index.php?100,en_1941-%E2%80%93-70-years-later%E2%80%9C

    Order of the Karageorge Star, Order of the White Eagle, Order of the Yugoslav Crown and Order of the Saint Sava.

    Also shoulder boards (pletenice) for generals and parade belt.

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    King Petar II Karađorđević in the M1937 Yugoslav Royal Air Force army general's uniform wearing decorations from above.

    He also has interesting medal bar with Karageorge Star, White Eagle, Yugoslav Crown, Saint Sava, Medal for Military Virtues and Charity Cross.

    Around his neck besides White Eagle, Order of the Saint Prince Lazar.

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    Yugoslav WW2 Commemorative Cross with miniature

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    M1937 Yugoslav Royal Air Force dagger

    Officer's cap (major, lieutenant colonel, colonel)

    Captain 1st class and lieutenant colonel's shoulder boards, pilot's badge and cap emblem

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