Rogi

Its probably the reasons you've provided GHB, when I do get a unresearchable, I think of a couple things, related to labour, partisans or super secret stuff hehehe One day, hopefully when all the archives open up, we will get the definitive answers :)

Wow awesome :D

Can't wait to see it

Very cool additions and lots of congrats :D

Awesome group Chris excellent find mate

I've never heard of this "return to the state" for Serbian/Croatian/Montenegro/Yugoslavia and it is probably a recipient from another country. To my knowledge Serbia never had such a decree, and if they did have it, it definatley wasn't acted upon in all cases. I know a lot of Croatian/Serbian families that still have their families orders, some are still buried with the recipient, others were left with the family to pass on to future generations. At home in my city, the custom when the recipient died was to bury them with their orders/medals. P.S. It is St. Sava not St. Sawa

Sweet addition, very cool is there anything engraved on the rim?

Sweeeet they look awesome man, congrats Paul on the new additions mate

Pretty awesome indeed

What fantastic pieces love the story behind the clock and dagger :)touching and what a touching tribute to Mr. Alex. Perley has many war heros here in Ottawa, it is great that you knew Mr. Alex and counted him as a friend :)

PM me the details I'll try and get you the info. depending on my school time :D

Probobly around there too, 1mil sounded excessive, but then again, do these US experts want to buy the coin? biggest bang for the "buck" hehehe I'm so bad in these jokes :D

Wow, awesome How much did it end up going for?

Wow excellent :D

Fantastic piece Iver as Unique as you can get with Montenegro pieces Aye the couple mags I have list it at 20 to 200 pieces around those marks, it is a very rare piece indeed and my congratulations on the addition :D

lol it looks like a key chain, great catch Paja

You will get it in the end! just keep searching and even sometimes clicking links that don't correspond to each other that's how I sometimes get a hit, in random places. You'll get it for sure, just takes a bit of time and a lot of luck excellent ring btw and hope she can join your collection soon

Those that Radmilo listed all used Rothe's mould and for sure different masters produced different variations, maybe even some of these are custom ordered pieces or put together in the workshop from different degrees. We have very limited info and resources on these medals, but for sure it is either Hugeunin, or Lesser. I think more Lesser because of the 800. I know Huguenin only hallmarked in the 900 and up ranges to account for quality of silver. As is mentioned, your piece has different aspects of each producer (you have a crown above the eagle that is characteristic of Huguenin pieces) if the 800 wasn't present we would most likely assume (as we've done in the topic) that it is Huguenin or similar. I really like the differences in the piece which make it cool in my opinion I think further research and looking and comparing examples are needed before we get a "100% decision" who knows, maybe there is a 800 HF piece somewhere, but for now with all the information we know, it is 100% a legit piece I'd say 95% chance it is Lesser from the info. we have, Hallmark is probably 90% of that while 5% we're comparing the look and feel of current known Lesser pieces.

Edit: Mum looked at it today and told me it is definatley Lesser, they stamped all of theirs with 800 and only small batch has the JL along with for hallmarking. HF didn't stamp theirs (at least to her knowledge and ones in her collection) Mystery solved Great job Radmilo :D

Sorry to bring up this thread a bit, but any chance of finding the recipient? I have a zilch in luck for searching German records (and probably what info. I do have access to isn't enough) Would anyone be able to suggest a recipient from the list above that may be suitable/ another source to look into? Thank you, Igor :)

Thank you both for the kind comments Hopefully a photo of Captain von Stecher will turn up would be nice to have that I'll try and post a bit more info. in the next couple days have found a good amount of info. on the ship he was Captain of

Awesome Photo Great find (to both hehehe )

I'll send one over pm :)

From the time period it is definatley Huguenin Brothers they used Rothe's molds so a lot of their pieces look exactly like Rothe, but since Rothe is from a previous time period than Huguenin, it is definatley Huguenin. Excellent piece :)

Awesome and great to remember him in this way :)