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Here´s some originals from the military museum in Belgrade. As you can see somebody has made copys of these daggers. Because these are unique of their kind. Nobody had the same of the chetniks.

All are fake except the one from the museum.

This model is fake but made almost exactly like the original that they have in the military museum in Belgrade.

Fake!

Fake!

Hope that you have find this interesting I´ll go to bed now

Now this is an original of lieutenant colonel Sinisha "Pazarac" Ocokoljic that was one of the closest officer´s of General Mihailovich. He was the organizator of the withdrawal to Slovenia. He managed to escape to Austria, but there he was kidnapped by Tito´s agents after the war and brought to Belgrade at a show trial. He was tortured and executed.

All fakes! Bur very good maker, he makes an old patina too.

Nice miniature badges, first time I see Goldstein manufacturer. Maybe because I have never been interested in them before .

A chetnik dagger (kama), have the theory that this dagger was used by the komite in the balkan wars inspite of the 1941 that maybe came later, there is also an inscription Serbia Krushevac. Have been told that there were a komite school in Krushevac. If the man was a young boy in the balkanwars he may have been in WWII too or if the dagger were heritaged by another familymember. Because the handle is typically osmanian style and old. Beware there is a lot of fakes of chetnik daggers too. There is a very good maker in Serbia that makes "old" daggers. But this was bought in Austria.

Have never seen that producer of those badges of the Association of officers in reserve and warriors. Would be nice seeing some pics.

It looks good if you look at it. The negative thing is that the last 2-3 badges that I have seen has been Goldstein. Before that I have never seen this producer. Hard to say my friend.

Yes hidden stash/attic/basement are common and popular hehe.

Kovnica Beograd is the most common and I think that they made the ww2 versions of this badge. Then we have the pre ww1 badges that are a bit different and without hallmark of makers. The Goldstein badges I am not sure about because they have just been seen recently. Have seen 3 of them the last couple of months, so that's strange too. A couple of years ago the prices for these badges were over 1000 euros but now they sell them for about 300 euros because of the quantity. This is worrying, I collect these badges but I won't buy any because of that.

I think that it is a Ravna Gora breast badge, usually worn by chetnik higher officers. None is identically, primitive made probably on field of aluminum material. Sometimes they took material from aluminum field bottles.

Regarding the revolver and the dagger badge. Also some of them are original and some are fakes. Be aware! On the backside you see that these badges are made of two pieces. There are some that you can see as they are newly mended, like repaired. My theory is that these aren't original. Because there are a lot "mended" :)

Pajo, I bought one of those Ravna Gora badges from the american guy and they are good. The american got all those badges from a widow, her husband was an officer in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It seemed that that officer was one of the people that was asigned to give those badges to the chetnik survivors. Because of that all the numbers match numerical.

I personally belive that there are some very very good fakes that have been showing up the last year. So be aware. Also it´s very hard to make a difference between a fake and an original.

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Look at this nice Franz Joseph grand cross http://www.northstarmilitaria.com/product/austria-hungary-franz-joseph-grand-cross-2/

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