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Jordanian order of independence, Bertrand maker.

What page is that? WRF?

What do you think about this decal? Is it ok?

Here´s more pictures actually, it´s more yellowish than it shows on the pictures.

Order of the Ethiopean star, grand cross

They are very hard to find soldiers and officers tunics. They burnt almost all uniforms when they came to Corfu because of the tyfus outbreak. The the uniforms you can find is french, american and english.

It is a rare medal and I think that it is "Mother Serbia". Many officer´s had a lot of critics towards this medal when it appeared. They said "How can a serbian hero wear a woman on his chest" . Because of this the medal wasn´t used long time. It was appeared 1912 and the newer bravery medal version with "Milos Obilic" was used later.

This handmade badge, how big is it and what is it made of?

As I said great exhibition and great pictures Paja as always , Love the Obrenovic rifle!

Great museum exhibition and great pictures from you Pajo. I wish I was there in person. Thank´s a lot for the information of the different weapons. Will it soon be a new weapons exhibition in Belgrade?

Got that book but it´s a shame that the writer didn´t write explanations under the pictures in the book.

This badge, it´s a bit different. Do you know which chetniks it belonged to exactly?

Here it is!

Yes of course you are right. this post have been a little mixed with different periods and different units . We got the regular Kingdom of Yugoslavia units, the "assault battalions" that you mentioned that was called "Jurisne jedinice". Then there were the "Komite units" during WW1 and before. Then the "Chetnik units" that was fighting under WWII. Then you got the "Milan Nedic units" , Nedic was the leader of Serbia at WWII. When Serbia was under ockupation. Then you got the "Ljotic units" that was collaborators with the germans. Some people call all those units "Chetniks", that is not right.

Yes the dagger is in a good condition, Here´s my sword of Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Here´s my infantry officer´s parade dagger from Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The insignia PII is impossible to have on a Kingdom of Serbia cockade. There´s a lot of "homemixed" cockades. It´s like with the opposite, the PI insignia on a Kingdom of Yugoslavia cockade. The parts are all original but not right put together with the time periods .

Great items as always my friend, you got great taste of good militaria . Like the old Ravna Gora badge, the first one.

How does that pin look like on the other side? Very nice collection and interesting badges.

Here´s another officer guard cockade. Only officer´s used these big cockades for their fur kalpaks. Don´t believe it´s the same type of badge that the chetniks or komite used, "Komite" was the first name for "chetniks". It is said that the komite that fought vs the turks was the first "commandos" of the world. They fought behind enemy lines against the enemies man to man combat with knives and grenades. Sabotaged ammo depoes and other important objects. Only the best volonteers could assign. This was before ww1.

Very nice items indeed, we hope to see more such items .

Depends where you buy the infantry dagger in some militaria webshops they are very expensive :)

It´s not easy to get an original Ravna Gora badge, had one and sold it and now I regret it. If I had the chance to trade my Infantry parade dagger of Kingdom of Yugoslavia I would do it.

The backside pin isn´t a tradionally one if I may say and this piece haven´t got so nice details.

Bill I think you are right that it was used on a cap "Shajkaca" traditional serbian cap. You could put a badge like that on the cap that I posted. Sometimes they made their own local badges. Have you seen the enameled cap cockades? They all have 2 pins for the caps.