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    Rogi

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    1. Gotta love those awards :) Thanks for posting Radmilo :) Now I'll be dreaming of St Sava's in 1st class with the ribbon hehehe :)

      The higher up you get in those award classes, the more beautiful they become :D

      drclaw- Order of Milos the Greats, there arn't that many out there, since it only lasted from 1898 to 1903 after the competing family took over :) and stoped the award.

      I'm suprised to even see the sash on the bay :D

    2. Could it be, that most soliders are buried with their medals, back home in the Former Yugoslavia, now Croatia, Serbia, Slovania, Bosnia, Kosovo etc Soldier's used to be buried with their medals, it was a very honorable and huge affair. There are a lot of soldiers who died in battle and a lot more who are now reaching an older age, so the documents and medals themselves might be "lost" when a soldier is laid to rest.

    3. So I'm perplexed I'm trying to figure out how many terms are used for a couple items in the research of medals in the archives, some are very similar to others, but I think I've been able to check and see which are the same and which are different, so far I've come up with these :

      Record Card or Award Card - this item has all the items awarded to an individual in his military career. ?

      Award Sheet- sheet recomending an individual for an award, has the citation and some info. on his military career. -> is this the same when someone says in research "The Citation" is he refering to the award sheet in general, or just the specific citation itself.

      Order - page stating the official awarding of the decoration. Will this be included in the previous documents on the decoration?

      Service Record Card- All manner of information on the individual, ranks attained, courses, family etc.

      Personnel file- Only available to officers and lists almost everything in their career.

      Is this a good break down of the specific terms? Have I mixed up any terms, do they need to be updated, and what is usually included (or what should I add extra) if I'm going to research 1 Order (Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd class)

      I want to be sure before commiting to a certain individual or group who researches these items, it is expensive and can get more expensive if added items are added, I just want to be sure what you guys on the forum would recomend the most and what you would recomend that comes standard in the research?

      One final thing, if anyone reading this has had research done and are pleased with the individual's work, could you pm me their email or name. I've currently contacted 2 individuals who I'm very impressed with, 1 of them is frequently used on the forum and the other indivudual who I have contacted I havn't found a lot of individuals using him, but he has been very polite, answered all my questions and both have been recomended by a forum moderator (I won't mention their names or who has recomended them, since I don't want to put someone in the spotlight who I havn't asked permission from, I'd just like to gather as much info. before making my commitment to someone, since it is my first time requesting such a thing for an Order so I would like to be sure what I would look forward to getting and what I don't need :)

      Thank you all,

      Igor

    4. Thank you all for the help, we have a mixed family serb and croat. and there is at least 1 member of our family I remember having a St. Sava order (in old photos) so I'll have to double check any photos at grandma's house for that specific one and maybe narrow down that one :) our family history in Yugoslavia goes back for ages.

      I've also noticed emedals selling a miniature version of the award (the Type 1) it is on this link:

      http://www.emedals.com/collectors-gallery/europe/serbia/orders/order-of-st-sava/order-of-st-sava-3

      Except it is chiped away, how easy/challenging is it to find someone to repair this ? (ie is there a specific forum member that restores awards?)

      and how much smaller from a reg. St Sava is a miniature? (sorry if all these questions are a bit newb :D)

      Thank you all for the advice and great info. :)

      Igor

    5. Hi everyone,

      I've been browsing the forums the last couple days and making a bit of posts but I don't see any concrete information for the St Sava order. I've always loved the award and since my family originated in Yugoslavia (we dont live there any longer but I was born in what is now Croatia) I'd like to purchase one of these. I usually like to do as much research as possible on awards before making a comitment to purchase, but there seems to be a lot of descrepancy on prices of these awards I know it boils down to a couple factors, first the grades ranging from 1st to 5th of the award.

      Second the maker and pattern, I know there are a couple variations and I've been able to find a link to the "Serbian and Yugoslavian Orders and Decorations" book where it lists the various Icons of Saint Sava on the award I can't find any more information apart from that.

      I'd like to know, what are the diffrences in pattern and how that effects value?

      What maker makes the best quality Awards?

      Are the awards plated, gilded, or pure silver/gold and if there are mixed ones (since I see a lot of gilded silver 5th classes etc I'd like to know where the line from pure to gilded is drawn in what class.

      For someone starting to collect this award, which Class, pattern, type and maker would you recomend?

      I'm not up to spending 1k, but I could see spending 400 or maybe even 500 on an amazing award I'm currently looking at the entry level prices for them and I just want to know why theres a small diffrence in price from 300 to 375 on some of the orders, since some 300 ones look better than the more expensive variants, I'm currently looking at all the 4th and 5th classes on the site emedals, I've seen it referenced here a lot but I have to ask, has anyone purchased from them ? Do they have a good reputation, they seem to have a lot of stock in orders and medals but I don't want to purchase and then end up seeing it is a fake. I want to make sure before comiting to any purchase, so I'll probobly end up posting here my questions in regards to the order. :)

      Thank you all for any help,

      Hvala i pozdrav,

      Igor

    6. I beleive theres an interview with Jackson somewhere in my bag of video clips, where he says he chose to wear the order because he liked the look of the Eagle. Some Hollywood Extra show or something, if I do end up finding it I'll put the post down.

      He should be able to wear whatever he wants to, but then again I think if a country informs him they do not wish him to wear the order, he shouldn't be puting it on and wearing it.

      Further more, as long as anyone doesn't expresly state that there were awarded the award, when they were not, why would it matter. I'd love to see one of the celebs sporting a MOH with diffrent color sash just to spice it up a bit.

    7. Here is my whole "Eastern" collection, not a lot but some really nice stories behind the medals :) the 3 Stars are Yugoslavian and the other medals I think are Russian along with the cap badge, would love to know more about them too :D

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      Heres the reverse of the Sporting medal if anyone can read it :)

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      The Paratrooper medal came out a bit blurry but it has a hallmark on the back, I'll post a pic when I get a better shot of it :)

      Hope you guys enjoy and I should post on the Yugoslavia forum with those pins :) I just love the red enamel look on these awards :D

    8. Hi Mr.Jim, thank you so much for the info. via pm I'll get right on it :)

      Here we go, I uploaded via Photobucket, I hope thats ok in the forum and within the rules, if not I'll try another method :) I took photos of both sides of the screwing in button thing and the award so you guys can see them both :)

      I don't want to remove the tarnish on the order because thats never a good thing (thank you antiques roadshow for this lesson :D)

      Does it look fine? and from the WW2 period?

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      If anything else is needed please let me know :)

    9. I'll get a picture up soon, but about 10 years ago when I was little we went to a medal convention (I think they still hold it annually here in my home town) and I was able to pick out an award that I liked that my parents purchased for me

      I'm into Russian aircraft and armor (more aircraft :D) and I picked out a Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd class. I would like to find some information on my specific award, it didn't come with its document but I was told that WW2 awards info. can be found.

      The serial number of my award is 219874

      Any information on the award as to it's recipiant or when it was awarded would be fantastic,

      Thank you all so much :)

      Igor

      P.S. I'll get pictures of the award posted soon :)

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