Rogi

​Have to agree, it looks almost exactly like the same type of addition as that Turkish order in the other thread.

If you look at the attachment eyelet as well, looks off, apart from those observations already mentioned, I'd pass it.

​No worries at all Dragomir, the list isn't written too clearly, I would of rather someone indicated something, than not thank you for letting us know

Thank you all for the comments Paul, ​Yes it is a Mayer piece, It has a couple hallmarks on it as well, when I have the time I'll try to post some from the piece.

​In the register I see his name listed under the Danilo III listing right above 2 officers of lesser rank that also received the Danilo IIIrd class, the Danilo II listing is separated by a semicolon, unless this means something different in Austro-Hungarian at the time, my understanding is that the semicolon (;) separates items in a list (in this case Danilo II and Danilo III) since the list itself has numerous commas in it. You can see the same division from the Danilo III class and Danilo 4th class in the list, after the semicolon, highest ranking officer is listed, then proceeding to lower ranked officers, and finally indicating that they were awarded the Order of Danilo 4th Class.

Almost forgot, many thanks to Iver I was able to pull some funds together and these pieces were re-united. Together again: Hopefully in the future more will be able to re-join the group, many Thanks again to Iver, which this could not have happened without him

​All the records for orders and medals for Serbia/Yugoslavia were destroyed in the German bombings of April 1941, a bomb hit the chancellery of orders and that was that, no more records of recipients, producers etc. No one knows how many of these beautiful pieces are in existence.

The ribbon you posted gives me a Bavarian Military Merit vibe for some reason, although excellent quality, is it silk? The quality and colors almost make me think Military Order of Max Joseph, the quality sure looks like for a higher order.

Cool, hey 6/8 aint bad at all

Wow what a beautiful star probably one of a kind piece Diamonds makes me think maybe Royal recipient?

If you could send me the PDF as well, it would be greatly appreciated.

​Is there a similar piece we can compare it to at least? The photos aren't that great, but it would be nice to see similar non-Christian variants and compare their features.

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I'm not sure how they made these variants, but I don't like the image of the central eagle, most that I've seen have a nice relief that reflects the eagle on them, the eagle itself isn't covered with a glass cover, they pop out at you, I've yet to see one that has a "glass" cover over the eagle (as this variant seems to have). The pictures aren't the greatest as Paul has suggested as well. Has it been tested for gold content or diamonds evaluated?

I've seen a couple of the Soviet Legions of Merit (in museums and in some private collections) although I havn't been fortunate enough to stumble upon any lists of these orders to who they were awarded to etc. The citation on most of these that I've seen comes on a much nicer and decorated onion skin (it appears thicker in quality to the usual onion skin citation) paper.

Wow amazing

Fantastic pieces Olivier Many thanks for sharing them with us the Louis Aubert example is very beautiful but the original has its merits and beauty as well.

Wow awesome medal bar ! *1st Class Jealously from me (no, not really only joking hehehe) Fantastic set and thank you for sharing it with us !

​You would be surprised what people fake and why, people generally don't fake Seiko watches either, but the fakes are available and unusual ones of these pieces (different dial color that is claimed as an original piece, sometimes claim higher prices on auction websites) You mentioned yourself that you paid a expensive amount of money that is higher than usual for this type of Red Banner. There is a possibility that it is either, you can't say for sure and claim it is legitimate, and neither can we say this is a forgery as everyone only assumes to a certain amount. That is why I mentioned it is probably from all experiences good, although the number is edited, can we prove where it came from, no?The number itself is good from all accounts. But then again, it has been edited, Either option remains on the table. Without some actual proof, you can't say outright that it is a good or bad piece, just as you mentioned and as an example, if the 6 digit's serial came back with bad/non-existent/cable man research, that is reason enough to a forger to have it changed to an early 5 digit research, or even to change it to 5 digit because it makes the order more appealing, which the price paid although seems small in USD, is a lot of money in other countries. It could also be a 6 digit converted down to 5 digit by veteran, because the veteran didn't want people to know who originally was the recipient of the order. (looking back, Paul suggested this as well) and as was previously suggested, this also could be converted elsewhere (factory, etc. ) there is too much of a "what if" that we could generally and fully say that the piece is legitimate, or not legitimate and not enough proof/facts out there to rule this piece in, or out. As long as you are happy with it, then that is it, it is a possible legit piece that may render very interesting research and hopefully one day this "mystery" of the serial number may be solved.

It depends, if you have faith in the number, as was mentioned previously it is a good hand at the serial number, then it is whatever the buyer believes to be true in a sense and if it won't leave your collection no matter what (true or fake) then who cares, enjoy the order for what it is. There are similar cases with any type of hand engraving, it is neither unlikely that it could be legit, or could be a well done forgery, either option remains on the table

Is that St. Stanislaus is legit, WOW great score.

Very cool photos Paja thank you for sharing

As Paul mentioned, plus the front of the Order looks pretty rough and a bit blurry, better pics would help a LOT :D

Wow, glad it found a good home, any other shots (interior?) :)

Bottom middle in the funeral pillow is Order of the Rising Sun?