Jacky

As far as I know,

one received a copy of the royal decree,

but I think we will have to wait untill the master reveals it all......

he's moving at the moment I thought...

Kind regards,

Jacky

p.s.

How comes he's wearing 4 stars on his OHK, while he has only 3 clasps on his war commemorative cross??

Also what is he wearing just below his button on the first picture??

kind regards,

Jacky

Correctly without the 4-days marching medal as it's only authorised in the military to be worn in the year the participation to the march took place.

Hendrik

Hello Hendrik,

this is indeed a nice bar, but the 4days marching cross was allowed to wear permanently as is any other medal of the Netherlands,

as it's also a royal decoration in the netherlands.

Your description of the restriction is for the belgian medal of the march of the IJser if I'm correct.

Kind regards,

Jacky

So this was the group you mentioned to me??

I'm eager to find out what the pictures looked like.

p.s.

Victory Medal (United Kingdom)

Don't you mean the war medal?? After WW2, no victory medals were handed out... Only for the first world war.

Kind regards,

Jacky

the last image is the same as the first, except that it had been washed with soap.

kind regards,

Jacky

The order of the polar Star, which I sold to Sergei,

althoug with quite a hassle and stupid mistakes, but after all

things got fixed.

I think Sergei likes your opinion on this one too.

kind regards,

Jacky

I'm not sure that it's the legion of honneur, as it seems to have way to much points on the cross....

The legion d'honneur had 8, 2 on east, 2 on north etc etc

But this cross appears to have also points midway of it.

The man appears to wear it in the first place, either he's french, but he doesn't look french, or he's portugese which would be consistent with the ribbon frames which are clasps, then the question would be what kind of portugese ODM would look like this?

But yes, they're indeed mounted in the portugese way, with the clasps.

If the 4th one would be the crimea medal, then should be there a clasp on the medal going in at about 45 decrees over the ribbon.

Great dane, the second medal appears to have a star and moon suspender.

kind regards,

Jacky

Hi,

It looks like the third one could be either the order of St Maurice & St Lazarus (not the crown order)

The last one could be the spanish Order of Isabella d'Catholica.

Kind regards,

Jacky

whow,

Really impressing, anti-US awards....

But to me it could have meant anything...

thanks for clarifying.

Kind regards,

Jacky

p.s.

Speaking about Bavaria......

Let's go to the cafe and have a bavaria

About bothering the Auction houses, don't bother, we always place a source with the image, thus it's fair to post them.

Placing pictures is just to prevend the information from going offline when the auctionhouse refreshes it's site and removes our subject.

Kind regards,

Jacky

Hi Gents,

I have decided to offer my Polar Star for sale at this forum before offering it else where.

My dear gents have the first option to buy this breast star.

Kind regards,

Jacky

Well, I would like to see something more,

perhaps eric's "something small and nice"

Or don't you have something to show us, Chris???

Kind regards,

Jacky

It just makes me thinking of "Lord of the Rings" "The return of the King"

"The eagles are coming.."

from..

Hi Rocky,

Isn't that a medalbar you're trying to sell since yesterday???

Kind regards,

Jacky

Well Surprising??

The medaille militaire isn't that surprising, it was a medal with very strict rules, thus quite highly prised!!!

But then the ordre d LA lib?ration still really should have precedence over the legion d'Honneur!!!

Kind regards,

Jacky

I think that the top row bar is quite strange,

but also the others......

The image had been mirrored....!!!!

But we see;

There are 11 rows, so here is a template to copy for filling in your answers. I filled in a random few to get you started:

1st row:

1. medaille militaire, France

2. legion d'honneur, grade commander, France

3. Ordre d'liberation, France

2nd row:

1. Croix de guerre 1914 -1918 with a number of citations (palms and stars), France

2. croix d'guerre des theatres d'exterieures with a number of citations, France

3. Croix d'guerre 1940 -1945, France

3rd row:

1. Medaille d'resistance avec rosette, France

2.

3. Croix d'Combattante volontaire 1914, France

4. Croix d'combattante volontaire 1940, France

4th row:

1.

2.

3. Croix du combattant volontaire de la R?sistance/Cross of the Voluntary Combatant of the Resistance, France

4.

5th row:

1. Victory medal, France

2.

3.

4. Wounded Medal, France

6th row:

1. Bronze star USA

2.

3.

4.

7th row:

1.

2.

3. Corea War medal, Corea

4. UN Corea Medal, United Nations

8th row:

1. Order of the British Empire, presumably Officer or Member, United Kingdom

2. Legion of merit, commander, USA

3. Silver star, USA

4.

9th row:

1. Virtuti Militari, Poland

2. Militairy Cross, United Kingdom

3.

4. Order of Polonia Restitutia, commander or grand officer, Poland

10th row:

1.

2.

3.

4.

11th row:

1.

2.

3.

4.

I'm wondering too,

Will see what the scan looks like!

Kind regards,

Jacky

Hi Eric,

I would like to help you on the second commander cross.

I think it's the Bavarian Militar verdienst order 2nd class with swertern & Kr?ne.

Kind regards,

Jacky

nice grouping!!!

I would just keep them and hush up about it!!

It's a really nice grouping.

Kind regards,

Jacky

p.s especially the victory medal is nice, 3 clasps and 10 stars.

he even needs 2 batons on his ribbon bar, however, it bears only 3 stars each, so he might need 5 batons to denote every thing??

Could you tell me what the stars are denoting??

To me it looks like a very asian sun with a character in in.

So I think it could be asian....

But then... what was it doing there?????

Perhaps a medal collector is now missing one of his pieces

Kind regards,

Jacky

Okay, I surrender....

Maybe am I too much in love with the order of Leopold II, and do I see them everywhere....

Not really a burden for me

Kind regards,

Jacky

I had been waiting for the right moment to post this picture.

It shows four Civic Decorations:

The Civic Cross for Long Service in the Fire Department and Home Guards (watch the suspension!)

Unknown Civic Decoration, I guess the Civic Decoration for acts of Courage and Devotion with the Fire Department or Home Guard

Civic Decoration for Acts of Courage, Devotion and Humanity x2

Any of you guys have an idea on the service and if my guesses for these Civic Decorations are correct?

Hi Eric,

Nice pictures!!!

I think that the second one from left isn't a civic decoration, it appears to have a thick darker center stripe which could be the Leopold II medal.... But then.. It's in the wrong place.....

However I really think that it's not a civic decoration based on it's ribbon.

Kind regards,

Jacky

Really nice medals!!!

I like it...

I have only the ribbon of the Fireman and civil guards, got it with some deal and just allow it to sit just in my box...

Concerning the Leopold II ribbon, I think it's the knights grade as the medals had a small piece of metal, illustrating the medal, in the color of the medal.

Also are knights of Leopold II very very common for veterans of both world wars.

Kind regards,

Jacky

Hello Eric,

Yes I think it's him too, but I meant the over-flashed breast star below the grandcross of the Military order of William....

Could be the Netherlands lion, but could also be the order of the golden lion of nassau... Perhaps could you identify this breast star??

Kind regards,

Jacky

At the above mentioned website, which I surely have enjoyed!!, I found also this picture....

Isn't the upper one the grandcross of the military order of William

the other one is really over flashed but could one perhaps shed a light ( ) to it's identy??

Kind regards,

Jacky