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It's a nice set, Nurullah. Both of the center medaillion have the Belgian motto in French and Dutch. This means they are produced after the Royal Decree of October 24, 1951. The "A900" hallmark is used for silver and means it's made of 90% silver. The second one should be "F (some sort of pressing tool) C" and is the maker's mark of Fisch et Cie, who became FiBru in 1988 (I think) and later bought by P. De Greef in 2021. So to me it looks like a complete set in the right box Kind regards, Vincent

In Belgium, and I think in the Netherlands as well, Don Bosco are schools, named after Giovanni "Don" Bosco and his order the "Salesians of Don Bosco". Maybe the badge has something to do with them. As Wat05 said: J. Fonson was known for military equipement, swords, uniforms and buttons. They did also medals, buttonhole pins, etc. Many of their work has a military connection but not all of it. This boutonniere has definetly no military connection. Fonson is a difficult manufacturer to put a date on. It had many different names (Fonson Frères, A. Fonson, J. Fonson, Fonson & Cie, Ets. J. Fonson, J.F. Fonson et Fils, ...) and some even used at the same time. Even when they started is not certain. The years 1823, 1827 and 1848 are used as their beginning but what looks to be certain is that they went out of business in 1968.

Found some similar medals in my "archive" (read: a collection of disorganized pictures of different medals) but with the text "Grand Prix Humanitaire Belge". Can't find anything about it either.

I also found one with a rosette. So it's probably awarded as an order by the society that created them ... and there are a lot of them in Belgium. Many of them you can only identify with some luck. If it's used as an order that means that cybercat's medal would be a knight, my picture an officer and Megan's a commander.

There are two versions of this medal: a Dutch and a French version (Welcome to Belgium 😛). Yours is the Dutch version with "De Veteranen van Koning Albert I 1909-1934" on the reverse. The French version reads "Les Vétérans du Roi Albert Ier". The federation is still active, I believe, and have some other medals too. They can be dated easily when they use the abbreviation of their federation on their medals. Unfortunately they don't use it on yours. Founded on 8 june 1948 under the name: Nationaal Verbond De Veteranen van Koning Albert I (NVVKA1) [Dutch] / Fédération National Les Vétérans du Roi Albert I (FNVRA1) [French] meaning: National Federation The Veterans of King Albert I. Received the "Royal" title on 3 may 1973 and so the name changed into Koninklijke Verbond De Veteranen van Koning Albert I (KVVKA1) [Dutch] / Fédération Royale Les Vétérans du Roi Albert I (FRVRA1) [French] meaning: Royal Federation The Veterans of King Albert I. On 16 september 2005 they changed it again, 'cause there were not much veterans of that era alive anymore, into: Koninklijke Verbond De Veteranen en Sympathisanten van Koning Albert I (KVVSKA1) [Dutch] / Fédération Royale Les Vétérans et Sympathisants du Roi Albert I (FRVSRA1) [French] meaning: Royal Federation The Veterans and Sympathizers of King Albert I.

Info I found on the 3rd medal. FRME / KFMB (French: Fédération Royale des Militaires à l’Étranger / Dutch: Koninklijke Verbroedering der Militairen in het Buitenland). Link: https://frme-namur.be/devenir-membre/#1587883755884-31dbfd48-31c8 Awarded to members who served in the Belgian Army stationed in Germany (FBA / BSD) for a minimum of one year between 1995 and 2005.

Must be indeed, as Jef said, a non-official medal from a veteransorganisation of the 1st (Infantry) Regiment of the Line. The medal depicts their cap badge. Do you have a picture of the reverse of the medal?

Nice topic and nice to see that even our unofficial medals are discussed by Russian collectors. The 2nd shown medal (FVA-VVW) I haven't even seen before. Still it would have been nice if they gave the source of their info. The first medal looks correct (FNVG - Fédération (Royale) Nationale des Volontaires de Guerre) - Can't find when they received the "Royal" title but they have it now. But the second one (FVA-VVW) I believe should be "Fraternelle des Volantaires de l'Armistice - Verbroedering der Vrijwilligers van den Wapenstilstand" (English: Fraternity of the Volunteers of the Armistice). It would also explains the dates on the cross "11-11-1918 / 28-06-1919". (see: https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/304113-help-with-identifying-a-ww1-foreign-medal/) So I'm still a bit sceptical about the third one. Too bad it doesn't have any initials of the organisation on it, but comments in the topic might gives us a direction to seach 😉. PS. Since I can't read Russian I'm only making comments on the names of the organizations they give and not the desciption about the medal. Kind regards, Vincent

@wws_raga Do you have any documentation about this? Not that I don't believe you but I can't find anything about that veterans group. I tried it in Dutch and French but both searches came back empty

Thanks, No one.

If you're certain it's at Huis Doorn you can try to contact the museum there (https://www.huisdoorn.nl/en/homepage/). Maybe they might recognize the picture and/or the person in it. Kind regards, Vincent

Thanks Great Dane Never saw this order before, learned something new today

Hey, I bought a lot of medals today and this one was among them. I have no clue what it is or from what country. The majority of the medals were civil medals from Belgium (from Word War I & II), 1 Italian (Officier in the Order of Merit) and 1 French (Officier in the Ordre des Palmes académiques). I hope someone here might recognize it. Kind regards, Vincent

You could be right with it being for the Civil Medal 1s class. I have the Civil Medal 14-18 (1st and 2nd class) in their box. Th "M 1e" is the same as here but it has the date 1914-1918 above it. As usual (for some reason) the 1st clas is a red box, 2nd class a blue one. Both boxes are from "H. Walraevens & Co." My Fonson one has a different box. Kind regards, Vincent

Thank Revolutie1830. I found what I was looking for. The medal is indeed made of silver, it has the mark of C.J. Buls (B above a wreath), looks like I forgot to mentioned that 🤭. The gilded part is lost over time but faintly visiable on the side. Kind regards, Vincent