Jani Tiainen

Thanks for all the information! I should have reserved more days ... Transylvania sounds tempting. Jani

Thanks a lot! I will be leaving next sunday and stay for three nights. I am looking forward to see Bucharest and Romania, even travelling a lot I have never been there before. Thanks for safety tips! I have a feeling that its no better or worse than most Central European cities like Praque, Budapest etc. This is now country #38 on my "Will travel every country in the world plan" Jani

Hello, I am going to Bucharest Romania for few days. I wish someone could give some tips to see Orders & Medals. I know there suppose to be some museum with very good collection, but which one it is? Any tips for / against local dealers would be nice. Jani

My 2 cents and I agree with Glenn R Jani

Thanks for showing Francois! I have always known you have good items but.... ... What is your major focus on collecting now If you slowly sell pieces away? Jani

You are the BEST! I would have never imagined that within 24 hours after receiving the medal I would have all the information. I am grateful to all of you. Thanks! Jani

Many thanks!!!!! Jani

Hello, I would like to hear your opinions on this Punniar Star. It is named to Cornet Wallace(?), Queens Royal Lancers. (Extremely difficul to read and worn). I would appreciate any help. With best regards, Jani

Auction results are now on our site. If you can not see the link, please refresh your browser. All the succesful absentee bidders will be contacted directly. We will go to Stuttgart show tomorrow for a week so please be patient if we are not able to handle all bids before returning to Finland next week. With best regards, Jani Tiainen

Auction results will on-line on our web site tonight at www.medalhouse.com Thanks for all participating in to our auction! With best regards, Jani

So far not pulled from the auction. Jani

...More information about this situation: Last week Finnish ministry of Justice contacted me and wanted us to pull out the items since they had got request from Interpol Moscow and through Finnish Internal Police department. I sent our explanation including the reqest for compansation if we end up pulling out the items. Finally today Finnish ministry did not seize the sale but wanted more information from Russia. I still do not know what is gonna happened, but it seems that no-one - for some reason dares to get the warrant to stop the auction. And If I do not get official warrant, I can not stop the auction because then I do not have any body to request compensation. If we managed to proceed the sale it is really gonna be surprising after all these accuses and bullying... I will keep you updated. Jani Tiainen MedalHouse OY

Yes they do! They requested us to pull out most of the "State-awards" - and claimed they are illegally obtained and smuggled from Russia. Following the request we have taken necessary steps to further investigate this matter. We have contacted the consignors again and received credible and sufficient assurances of the legal ownership of the items in question. We will definetly need detailed information of each item from Russian Authorities. All the items mentioned in the letter from Russian authorities were produced in large numbers and are neither unique nor represent extraordinary historical value. Similar items are openly and freely sold at many European and North American auctions as well as at a large number of specialized web sites all over the world. Some of these items were not even the state awards Russian authorities referred to. This fact has been clearly outlined in our sale catalog. So we were very surprised to encounter such hostile reaction of Russian authorities to the sale of orders and medals of the former USSR - since we thought the Sotheby's case was totally different because of very highly awarded groups of Marshalls I do not understant this situation at all. I do not know exactly what happened with UBS, but I heard some items were forced to pull out from their auction as well. All of these items are legal to sell in Finland. I am positive none of the items have been stolen and history of many of the lots goes all the way back to its original owner. Needless to say, that as Finland-based company, which follows and obeys all laws of the Republic of Finland, we are prepared to fully cooperate with Finnish authorities in resolution of this matter. Jani Tiainen MedalHouse OY

I requested our Russian expert who made these particular decriptions to reply here, though he might be out of town until the end of this week. Thanks for your interest, Jani

Hello, Thank you for your interest - I am the owner of the abovementioned auction. Please feel free to send any questions regarding the forthcoming auction. Catalogues were sent to those who have pre-ordered them through our web site or at the shows we have been spreading leaflets. Let me know if you want .pdf catalogue. I will send that by email if needed (10 Megabytes). We did a lot of work with the auction and decided to give our first catalogue out free. Medalhouse Ltd. is new company just for the auctions, but is owned by me / Finnmedals Intl., which I have had for over ten years. Prices ARE NOT starting prices, but ESTIMATE prices. There is a reserve price on each item, but that is lower than the lowest estimate. It was nice to meet many of you at the SOS! With best regards, Jani

BTW- First screwback L/59 with such nice maker marks I have ever seen!!!!! Thanks, Jani

Bloody hexxx... That is quite an certificate. First time for long time I logged in and.... Jani

Hmmm... It seems to have maker number "1" on pin as well Run!

>Yellow-red (civil) ribbon w/ swords combination on crosses of liberty is also used to denote awards given for military merits during the peacetime. But during peace time without rosette. Jani

I remember when lot of these was on eBay... I heard about them few days afterwards...it was heavy and took long time to recover ... Even the evilbay may occassionnally give something good for you Like what happened to me just few days ago http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...DME:B:BCA:US:11 Jani

I meant Oberstleutnant, since I thought it might have been misreading or something Adjuntant might be the key for bumbed up award (?) Jani

OberStleutnant could have received 2nd class. With foreigners the criteria has neither been that strict. Jani

Yes I could... since I dont have any groups with 2nd class Cross of Liberty ...I have been so close... so many times... Jani

reverse with nice Godet tag. //Jani

and another... (Still want moreeeee....) Jani