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    Graf

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    1. Hi, It is very nice document Thank you for sharing First it is a very low Number No 90 It is known that 699 1st Class in Gold have been awarded The Document is correct The awarded person was Prince Ferdinand adviser The Name is correct . however without the "u' at the end I suspect that at that time adding "u' was Russian influence after the Russian-Turkish War 1877-1878 and/or could be modern style at the time. Whether this person was VIP one I am not sure I leave this one to our Bulgarian members to find out I have the same document but with much higher number No 844 to an Officer I suspect the numbers are given in order of awarding regardless of the Class According to sources the very first crosses were given to members of the Royal family Ministers of the Principality of Bulgaria and other dignities Total awarded Crosses are 1st Class 699 2nd Class1019 3rd Class 475 Total 2193 PS. I noticed that your Document looks lit was more personally addressed ,fact makes me think that the VIPs were presented with such type of Document Regards
    2. It is the last point of your question and explanation This LOH was sold on eBay France i did not buy it Just listed as "interesting" item Congrats -very good observation BTW The seller managed to get very good price from the ignorance of the buyers
    3. Very nice and rare document Thanks
    4. Good point
    5. Hi Steve, Very nice Documents Especially the second one because it is one of the last one for the medal for merit It is from the republican period. It is similar like mine. The first one is also very interesting, because it is one of the first Communist Documents
    6. Very nice Photo Thanks for showing it
    7. Hi Bretzen , Thank you for the post It looks like the box for the 3rd Class 2nd Grade is still out there and hopefully will pop up on the collectors market. So far i have seen from this period boxes with the imprinted Grade and Class. : 1st Class box 2nd Class box 3rd Class 1st Grade box 4th Class 1st Grade box 4th Class 2nd Grade box Regards Graf
    8. Hi,

       

      Sorry for bothering you

      I decided to contact you direct to keep the privacy

      From your last listing on the Bulgarian Order for Bravery I noticed that the picture had the name of German dealer who i had deals in the past. Sadly he closed his business

      I kept in touch for a while with his co-author of couple of books - Thomas Kuhn

      Are you Uwe Bretzendorfer or his relative.?

      I will be glad if i have a news about Uwe

       

       

       Kind Regards

      Graf

       

       

      1. Bretzen

        Bretzen

        Thank you Graf,
        for writing to me.


        Yes, I am Uwe Bretzendorfer from Ludwigsburg, with whom you have done business in the past.
        I closed my business a few years ago because of health problems.
        But - thank God - I have overcome these problems and I have a lot of fun again with orders and decorations as a collector.

        So it will be a great pleasure for me if you and I can talk about all kinds of discussions in the future with you..
        My English is still terrible, but the Internet has made great progress - unlike me.

         

        And I would be a happy man if we can address each other as Uwe and Peter.

         

        I translated it with "DeepL" and i hope you can understand it.

         

        Kind regards

        Uwe

      2. Graf

        Graf

        Hi Uwe,

         

        Thank you for the reply.

         

        It is great that this health problem is no longer an issue for you and you enjoy collecting

        You had a nice items in you shop.

        I focused my collecting to Bulgarian Orders and decorations I manged to get some very rare items That is mine main focus.  Also  rare models  of French legion of Honour and Belgium Orders,..... and some single Orders from Europe

        I sold most of my German Iron Cross, especially the WW2 Period. Here in Australia, unfortunately the Government, under pressure from certain groups, started campaign against WW2 German Items They banned and made criminal offense if someone display WW2 German items Crazy times.

         

        I kept some rare 1914 1st Class Iron Crosses and single items from 1870 and 1957 period

         

        During the Pandemic the last two years Australia was locked down to the rest of the world for 2 years The only way to go overseas was to apply for special permission Melbourne at the same time became the most lock down city in the world Crazy times I stopped the collecting since it was difficult to buy  from overseas. Also it look the market is very slow.at the moment

         

        Otherwise apart from some small mental issues in the family, due to those lengthy lock downs, the life is getting slowly back to normal.

         

        I am very happy to get in touch with you If you want I can send you mine personal email for direct contact

         

        Kind Regards

         

        Peter.

         

    9. That is nice box Do you have boxed 3rd Grade 2nd Class Ferdinand issue with the Grade and Class stamped on the lid ?
    10. I agree those ribbons are left overs from the recent "old" days i suspect made from left overs ribbons, especially the not as popular as the one we are discussing now Regards
    11. I agree. i also doubt that some of the items are available. he is using them to look that the Auctions are exclusive. Also ,the starting price does not mean anything if those Auctions are not open
    12. It looks like Bogdan did not sell some of the questionable item on his last Auction he relisted them again It is close Auction. You can not see the other bids ??!! He made very high estimates of the items Well above the market prices
    13. The buyer did not suspect any wrongdoing
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