ErikMuller

I am still behind my laptop most of the time during these holidays...

Sounds familiar

The Crown Order (Kroonorde) is part of the Family Order of Orange and is only awarded to foreigners, this to make the Family Order special to merit Dutch service to the Royal Family. One of the best known recipients is Prince Charles, who wore it as the only foreign royalty during the wedding of Prince William Alexander and Princess Margerita (Prince Charles also holds an GC of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, but then again, we know how the British royal family gets dressed for official state visits: Prince Philip wore the Order of the Leopard of Congo instead of the Order of Leopold of Belgium during a state visit to Belgium. Looking at that the Crown Order instead of the Order of the Netherlands Lion is less painful).

During the last state visit to Belgium the GC of the Crown Order was also awarded to the Belgian princesses.

The medals are identical to that of the Family Order of Orange. The crosses of the Order itself also, although they are enammeled white instead of red.

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Never saw that one! It is most certainly an attractive medal.

By the way it's 's-Hertogenbosch, not Herzogenbusch.

Thanks Jacky for the reply. The asking price was almost 800 euros, but I suspect it was overpriced.

Carol,

I don't think it's Dutch manufacture because the maker's marks of Moussault, Van Maarseveen or Bron are missing. It could be a Becht-piece however, but I'm not totally sure.

800 euro's sounds like a fair price for an older piece.

Cheers,

Erik

It might be Arthus Bertrand in Paris.

Thanks Paul, I will try to contact them (hope someone speaks English over there).

I was told recently that there was a medal manufacturer somewhere in western Europe (Belgium, France and the like) that had a set of dies for making the insignia of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam. By any chance would you be able to see if you can find such a person

Does anyone know of such a medal manufacturer?

Chris,

Thanks for the reminder ... it is now and I've added a couple more for good measure

Cheers,

Hendrik

Couldn't find it in the new theme, so posted a new topic on Dutch decorations for the wounded in generally over there: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13326

These are all the images I have. Maybe someone else can post images of the Wound Stripe and the other medals of the Union of Netherlands Military War and Service Victims?

For those interested in more information, the Union has a website (in Dutch).

Commemorative Medal 1945-1995 of the Union of Netherlands Military War and Service Victims

(Penning op het 50-jarig bestaan van de Bond van Nederlandse Militaire Oorlogs- en Dienstslachtoffers)

The Medal for 50 years of Membership of the Union of Netherlands Military War and Service Victims

(Bondmedaille voor 50-jarig lidmaatschap van de Bond van Nederlandse Militaire Oorlogs- en Dienstslachtoffers)

The Medal for 40 years of Membership of the Union of Netherlands Military War and Service Victims

(Bondsmedaille voor 40-jarig lidmaatschap van de Bond van Nederlandse Militaire Oorlogs- en Dienstslachtoffers)

The Badge for the Wounded (Draaginsigne Gewonden)

In The Netherlands we have the following decorations for the wounded:

Woundstripes (1944-1990)

Badge for the Wounded (1990-present)

In the sidelines we also have:

The Union of Netherlands Military War and Service Victims:

- Cross of Merit (gold, silver, bronze)

- Long Membership Medal (10, 25, 40 and 50 years)

- Table Medal (gold, silver, bronze)

- Commemorative Medal 1945-1995

An unknown French civil servant with what looks like the Wound Bar ribbon on the right of his group.

Sweet, thanks Hendrik!

Post no. 1 is indeed already in English on my website! Completely forgot about that:

http://www.onderscheidingen.nl/gb

I will keep your offer in mind, but first I have to re-write some Dutch language pages (amongst which the War Commemorative Cross).

Hallo Erik,

I am very surprised not to see a " U N I F I L " clasp, seeing they are having a "U N T S O & U N I C Y P" or has Dutch-Batt contributions to Lebanon been forgotten already. or did I miss something in the write up.

Kevin in Deva

Dear Kev,

DutchBat has no active participation in UNIFIL since 1985, so there is still no clasp for this mission on the Commemorative Medal Peacekeeping Operations.

Those who participated in UNIFIL from 1979 till 1985 received the Commemorative Medal UN-Peacekeeping Missions, which was abolished on institution of the Commememorative Medal Peacekeeping Operations.

For thos wanting to see how these medals looks like, see my website:

Commemorative Medal UN-Peacekeeping Operations (1980-2001)

Commemorative Medal Multinational Peacekeeping Operations (1982-2001)

Commemorative Medal Peacekeeping Operations (2001-present)

On the page for the Commemorative Medal Peacekeeping Operations is a picture of a group which has al three medals in it.

Although the pages are in Dutch, I'm working on an English language version. Not to much time for it though...

Thanks for these, Eric! I appreciate them.

I was holding off on the Armed Forces Service Medals, trying to make sense of them, as there are two (or three?) different types of each.

I have more, but the interest is so limited I may not bother.

Hi Ed,

At least one interested person here!

I got these medals (+ a an assortment of what you already posted) from a friend who did a couple of ISAF-missions in Kandahar.

Nope, just some standard silver marks, will look up the scan later, have to go to work now (already running late!)

And again, an unknown medal:

The Armed Forces Service Medals for 15, 20 and 5 years of service

A yet unidentified medal from the same period:

To add to Ed's Afghan abyss, some of Afghan medals in my collection that aren't displayed in Ed's:

Medal to Commemorate the 7th period of Peoples Representatives in the National Council

How can any copy have more (historical)value than the real thing?

OK, bit

But here's what I traded it for, any of you gents have an idea what it is?

Nice photo! Is this from the rememberance book of the mobilisation cross 1914-1918?

There most be a way to find out what kind of medal this is. I have tried to find more info about the decorations of Luitenant Generaal Cramer. Without succes!

Yups, its from the 1939 book. I must have an original photo of him wearing his medals on a banket somewhere, but I think its with my notes about the unknown decorations: displaced somewhere in my archives :-S

lasercopy made by the firm G?de

Copy... hmmm... traded it for an unknown obscure African continent Order

Oh well... you win some, you lose some...

I've already posted this question in the European ODM section, but someone tipped me to place the question here to.

Any help would be appreciated:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12663