Graf

13 hours ago, Herman said:

I always thought that you could receive only one EK2 per war. Seeing two in a set seems strange. Only the ribbon is different. 

Well it happened also with MVK's.

 

Can somebody shine a light on double EK2 awards in WW1. 

 

Regards

Herman  

Simius Rex gave explanation yesterday Few listings above

It was just listed on eBay.com

Go on militaria and type Bulgarian Orders

Price $70 plus postage $30 The book weights 2kg

The seller accepts offers, therefore you can knock few $$$

,,,,and Gold medal in a box (not part of the Set)

Here is a Set of decorations and old photos

on eBay Belgium for 40 Euro

You can see the use of boxes as i said in the previous  listing

Nice boxes and for a good price.

most of them are for different medals

The red one with the text is for the Gold medal of the Order of the Crown

I used to keep some of the Orders that came without a box, especially the Knight Classes

Enjoy them

Hi New World,

Yes,I know about the book

It is one of kind

I do not know the author, however it will be nice to have this book

Regards

On 02/04/2023 at 20:48, ksg said:

Thank you for the information Gordon !

 

Here is some pictures from the incident.

 

Kjell

Thank you for the photos

On 05/03/2023 at 23:06, Claudio said:

Hi everyone!
Here’s my last entry… Alas not yet identified… 

enjoy! 
 

cheers

 

C

Very nice

On 02/04/2023 at 21:33, Dave Wilkinson said:

In an attempt to generate some discussion of this subject I'm going to post some further images from my helmet collection. First up is a Liverpool City Police Chief Inspector's helmet. The gent who wore this helmet was the officer commanding the Liverpool City Police, Liverpool & Bootle Constabulary and Merseyside Police Mounted Department (up until circa. 1984). Just to clarify, although the plate has on it the King's Crown and the Liverpool City wording, the helmets continued to be worn by the mounted men on ceremonial occasions across the time period of the three forces through to 1983. They were expensive items for the force to buy and were only worn on two or three occasions each year. There was no personal issue. They were drawn from the Mounted Dept. Stores for the event and returned immediately after. This particular helmet was a "one off". It was the only one with chrome edging to the peak, and was  worn by the one and only Chief Inspector commanding the Dept. They were often seen being worn on "Grand National" day. 

 

In 1983, the whole of the "Liverpool City" stock of helmets were withdrawn and replaced by the current "Merseyside" badged version which continues in use to this day. That said, they are now seldom if ever worn. I will show the Merseyside current version in a later post.

 

Dave.  

Very Nice

3 hours ago, JapanX said:

 

Looks like a typical Cravanzola-made cross.

 

 

Most likely some kind of a technical marks that were used by manufacturer/manufacturers. Orders of the Crown with marks "T2", "O", "GD" are also known.   

 

Best,

Nick 

 

 

Yes it is possible If the whole cross is in Gold then the A is not relevant to the material that was used

Although most of the Silver Crosses are marked 800 I assumed that the A could be Argenti the Italian for Silver, however it could be the makers. Province mark as well

Nice Cross

A is for Silver Sometimes they are marked 800 T

Although the central medallion looked rose gold

another nice pair

The Grand Cross of Order of St Alexander was sold on this Auction, however i do not think it was part of King Ferdinand collection that was presented on this Auction

2 hours ago, Stogieman said:

Graf, that’s a beautiful set, especially the mini 25 oak leaves 

Thank you

5 hours ago, ilieff said:

thank you, Graf

Welcome Ilieff

Those medals were awarded during the Russian Turkish War 1877-1878

During this War Bulgaria was liberated from Turkish Yolk

I suppose members with Russian knowledge will translate exactly the text

After the War new  formed Bulgarian Government requested a medal to be minted in Russia and given to the Bulgarian Volunteers in this War

1 minute ago, JapanX said:

Guards gorget.

 

Very nice