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I have been meaning to post this group (or well part of this group) in hopes of finding more information on the recipient. The group contains some orders of Gouverneur Général (Governor General) Hubert Auguste Garbit, hopefully one day I'll be able to re-unite more pieces of his group. I feel fortunate to own these pieces and was happy to see them join the collection G.G. Garbit was the Governor of La Réunion and later served many terms as Madagascar's Governor General while holding his army posting (Colonel) during the years

Hubert Auguste Garbit was the Governor of La Réunion from August 30 1912 to 23 November 1913

He served as Acting Gouverneur Général of Madagascar from:

13 December 1909 to 16 January 1910

5 August 1914 to 13 October 1914

He served as Gouverneur Général of Madagascar from:

13 October 1914 to 24 July 1917

22 June 1920 to 13 March 1923

Publishing a book after the war, which highlighted Madagascar's contribution in WW1.

On top of his posting, he was a Colonel in the Artillery and spent a good career there.

I've found some information on his Légion dhonneur ( I know he was awarded a Chevalier (knight's class) in 1895 and a Commandeur (commander) in the listing in 1920) but cannot narrow down if he was awarded an Officier (Officer) or Grand Officier (Grand Officer)class.

Apart from that, I've been reading G.G. Garbit's book and some other ones that list his improvement of Madagascar's economy. (I will try and post more information later

Any help is greatly appreciated as I am not yet very knowledgable in French Orders and would like to know more

Hope everyone enjoys the group and I appreciated everyones comments

G.G. Garbit's Orders from left to right are: Légion dHonneur, Order of Agricultural Merit (Hallmarked), Medal for Lifesaving (engraved, unofficial engraving?), Belgium Order of Leopold I (Hallmarked 950), Order of St. Sava (hallmarked)

reverse:

Medal for Lifesaving is engraved H. Garbit:

Closer zoom:

Some close ups:

Order of Leopold I hallmark:

Best shot of the Agricultural Merit hallmark:

Best shot I can take of the St. Sava hallmark:

Last but not least a photo of G.G. Garbit found from the web

In my opinion (and this comes from years of watch collecting, much longer than orders and medals collection ) I think the dial is a re-dial from the pictures you've presented, it looks too clean to be older, if the watch is German, it should have a distinguishing feature to it on the dial (it looks like there is some writing just over your Sammlung watermark, if it lacks something, it has either been over cleaned or re-dialed. If you could, please post a closer picture of the white hue on the dial.

If you can open the reverse and let us see the movement as well, it would definatley let us know the very least if it is an original piece or a copy, they've made some fantastic fakes and "franken" watches over the years, pairing older movements into newer cases.

If it is legit, I can do a movement search for you and try to come up with a possible candidate :D

Looks great a great uniform and complet indeed :)

Very cool is this in your collection ccj? :)

Hopefully this will lay to rest some doubts about the origin of these magnificent piece and explore and open further discussion

I was fortunate to add another "Golden" St. Sava to the collection, from the last post we were stuck on this piece being either Swiss or French, maybe being a prototype, or not, but who knew.

Well to put it to rest, it is a French piece (from the looks and style of it, either Chobillon or Lemaitre), the recent addition is a 4th class (silver gilt) with a boar punchmark (it is easily visible in regular sunlight, but hard to photo as the gilt on the piece makes it near impossible to get a good shot)

As the first Golden St. Sava (5th Class) I added to the collection couldn't be discerned easily in it's punchmark, I wanted to make sure and happily this new 4th Class joined the collection to confirm the French punchmark.

We can discern that there are 2 types to the Icon, one type, let us say "Type 1" is the more common variant that I've seen over the past couple years. It has a Orange robe with white sleeves.

"Type 2" is less frequent (I've seen 2 of them) it has an all orange robe.

Both Icons, appear to be Cloisonné a very interesting procedure to develop and a fantastic result. The Icons shine in the sunlight and give the appearance of "fire" in the orange robes. Really something that has to be seen in person.

An added bonus is that this 4th class is attributed, but I will post the grouping a bit later in the French forum and link to it.

Just one more note: the 4th class (left), it's Eagles are also Cloisonné in the center, very interesting and beautiful, but hard to catch on camera.

Well no more talking for me, here are the pics I hope you guys enjoy :)

reverse:

Depending on which country and if they let the recipient keep the diploma. Each recipient should receive a award doc.

I didn't notice it before. In the group photo, sitting right next to Fritz Hermann is a guy I have the documents to -Charles Thibaut!

I have a photo of him, but I was not aware of this picture. Outstanding!

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/28046-marine-stabzahlmeisters-charles-thibaut/?hl=thibaut

Double awesome hehehehehe :D

Wowza! amazing group!!!! :D

Tito's Suvorov 1 :o :D *drools

Congrats indeed :D but I was suspecting that you would sweep any show hehehe since you have excellent talent in these miniatures, very lifelike and capture the feel of the person you are portraying.

Maybe the judges didn't want to hurt peoples feelings with a sweep!

I was told that the Soviet awards to the US Navy were all unresearchable by multiple (three) researchers (all good people!) However, when I was last in Russia, I was gifted by the author Efimov with the research for the awards, confirming their serial numbers. I think it's all the matter of who asks whom...and who at the Archives wants to go to the effort to get some of the more unusual things. I will say though that the numbers for the US awards weren't perfect (I saw so many of them I could confirm many of the numbers having had the awards in my hands...) and in a couple cases, the same number was listed for different recipients. Typos? Perhaps. Efimov also did tell me that several of the Ushakov/Nakhimov Medals that he researched came back with the same serial number awarded to multiple recipients. Most likely a recording error in the process. One would hope it wasn't a very common error.......

Isn't their a "master" list that can prove or disprove what serial number belongs to who?

Wow, that home hot enamel kit is getting around

Excellent post thank you for reminding us of the date and event Sasa Puno Hvala

Really interesting grouping there

Sweet pick ups congrats Paul, some gems there mate :D

It is hard to get a contact in the archives there and once you do there is a high turn around in researchers there. No one likes to stay in one place long always shooting for better positions :)

Great Uniform and info I think I know you from another forum hehe Welcome to GMIC you will find the community here excellent and passionate about Militaria and history.

He also looks like a famous Croatian King, King Zvonomir

Sweet pick ups :D

Now if Canadian cellars only had such treasures :D

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