oli4vercammen

Leave them like they are! Mistakes can always occure. Reminds me of someone on the WAF, who didn't knew he had a Knights Cross! He distroyed it, becouse he thought it had to have a mount of a EK2.

close-up please? I've never seen this badge before. I must say that it is not official like the other wrote before. oli4

it's a known copy. they even copied the glitter in the black enemal of the metal breststar! What a mistake.

the enamal, the details on the loop and you got an old ribbon: dark and wide. The commander of Alex K has a more modern ribbon. In the old days the ribbon of the commanders where wider than the ribbons of the knights and officers. But when the ribbons became to expensive the producers took the ribbon of the knights and made a string on that.

what's modern? I think it's made between 1930 and 1950.

It isn't a Belgian one, other methode of loops, I think it is a furagere for the French TOE medal.

That's a nice bronze one! I like it. When bronze is new, it has a very shiny look, only when it breads a lot of air and sulphur in the air, it oxidizes and gets a patina just like silver and gets darker. You could clean it like a prowd soldier and make it shine like the bal of the suspention or let it like it is like most of the collectors do.

We all know what to put under the tree next Chrismas

It certainly is! A nice catch, Laurence.

The order of the Leopard of Congo was instituted in 1966, when the republic was independant of Belgium. Later it became Za?re an then Congo again, after Moboutu died. The order of the Netherlands Lion was created in september 1815 for that part of the country that's named Belgium since 1830.

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

you can buy them on ebay for 25 euro

lasercopy made by the firm G?de

How it is made, the details of the craftmanship, etc...

indeed, that one with the swords is about 1880-1900 and I guess that the other is around 1930-1940. that one with the swords would fit nicely next to my civilian one of that period

Maybee a start for learning to enamel yourself?

nice work! How did you remove the paint? with what kind of product?

Jacky, I sold Paddywhack that one. You had to see that, it was a true horrorshow, before I handeled it and sold it to Paddywhack. I believe that are my pictures, before he restored it. There where plastic diamonds glued on it and the crown had a thick layer of gold paint on it (the horror, the horror, the horror ) I removed the diamonds and the thick layers of some sort of glue. I like to see the final result Paddywhack. Do you have pictures? here wil follow pictures how I got it:

Oh I remember that one I'm glad that you got rid of the paint of that terrorist (hey, it wasn't me )! are you still looking for that rosette? An old one is going to be impossible and a new one is going to be expensive, I'll warn you!

what shall I say? depends when you are lucky or not, but normaly you'll have to pay between 150 and 200 euro, I guess. It also depends in what condition they are or what period. Those ribbons are relatively easy to find in Belgium. can you post a picture of the medal only?

Maybee if you read my post carefully I've written: "anyway this was on my computer, so I didn't have to scan it. yes I know I'm a lazy dude." So it means that I won the auction, copied the pictures and posted them, so I didn't have to scan the decoration! Becouse all this bla, bla and no boem, boem (the Flemish will understand this joke ;-)) I'll post a picture of a part of my collection. When I saw that it wasn't there I thurned in several collours but then I remembered that it was in a box of not labeled decorations! moraal van het verhaal: niet zagen en foto's posten of ik word boos natuurlijk kan je me steeds gerelateerde vragen stellen en moet je me niet als een arogante kl**tzak aanzien en mocht je ooit eens naar Vaanderen komen dan ben ik niet te beroerd om je op een pintje te trakteren excuse me for my use of the Flemish language on this international forum

I didn't got it from a book I guess It's him, becouse he was the king then. He was the "Koning ridder" (king knight) and the soldier has a laurelwreath on his helmet and this is a sign of a winner and Albert was seen by all the winning countries as a great man.

no, not all the decorations have insignias on their ribbons and yes, it's king Albert. Olivier

who can top that collection? Maybee "de koffer in het Loo" (the case at the Loo museum Apeldoorn, Holland) anyway this was on my computer, so I didn't have to scan it. yes I know I'm a lazy dude.

Since we have already 3 other Belgian orders on the forum I guested that a forth couldn't harm. Who will place the fift? Oli4