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Perfect buy !! congrats When you get it could it be possible to send me a scan of this pic . Thanks regards Milan

Very nice picture and probably very seldom seen. I would guess that the german officer was a atachee to the embassy or something similar. regards Milan

Very nice item and seldom seen for sale, it should be the first class of firefighter order for merit regards Milan

It would be an honour to show you a part of my collection under the following link :My Collection When the first page shows up, click in the middle of the medallion from then on its all self-explanatory (its a first start I should work more on my website but ..... lack of time !) regards Milan

Here another of my favorite YU orders :

I know I know please do not me But I had to focus my collection a little bit and I had a opportunity to enlarge my YU Kingdom collection with a couple of excellent beauties ! Regards Milan

Hello it would be nice to have the second class order too !!! Is there anybody having this one in his collection so post the pictures PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards Milan

Good evening Christian I have absolutely the same opinion as you regarding the bad quality, it is a pitty to look at those orders, and I think that you have the right reason for this. Probably the dies have been saved from Zagreb but the know how of manufactury remained with the persons there. During the former periods all enamel work was done by IKOM in Belgrade was only the minting part of coins and medals. Regards Milan

Hello Roeland the order of the Yugoslav Crown is constituted in 5 classes. The first class with a breast star and sash badge, the second class having a smaller breast star and a neck badge, the third class having the neck badge only and 4th and 5th class being breast badges of smaller size. The according sizes are as follows: The badges for I, II and III class are 48mm across the edges of the white cross, the cross ends bear a small ball of 2.5 mm, the ball on the top cross end is 4.5 mm. Attached to the top of the cross is a green oak wreath size 17mm high and 22mm large. The IV and V class badges are 37mm across the ends and the tips are accordingly smaller in dimension. The oak wreath is 13mm high and 22mm large. The breast star for I class is 90mm and for second class 75, I class having a III grade badge applied on the base plate of the star and the II class bearing a 4th class badge. The ribbons are (dark blue): I class Sash : 105 mm II class neck cravat: 75mm III clacc neck cravat: 75 mm IV class triangular folded ribbon: 40 mm V class triangular folded ribbon: 40 mm Hope that this is enough for beginning, will be writing more soon about some variants etc. Best regards Milan

and finally the awarding document for a colonel

The avers and reverse side of the order Christian, look at the crude work with the old dies from the order for military merit 45-91

the according box

Here we go ! This is the order for merit in the field of security and defence, 1st grade

Good evening gentlemen yes you are absolutely right they used the dies and the ribbons, the only thing that lacked was the experince in craftmanship and manufactury of orders. See my next example how crude the work has be done. Medals from this time period are pretty OK (as seen). For the 43-2000 period should be no problem in having access to those papers, I will tell a friend of mine who arrived at Beograd just today to look what he can find. Regards Milan

Hallo Christian good observation, it is the same ribbon as for the old medal for military virtue. regards Milan

This is for me one of the most beautiful orders from the past WWII period

and the award document

the reverse

the avers of the medal

Hello here is another medal of the Milosevic era, the medal for merit in the field of security and defence. I will post pics of the box, the award roll, the award document and of course of the medal. Regards Milan

As my document is for another medal, the medal for merit in the field of defence and security I will open a new thread, please follow the other thread for the pics ! Milan

Always the same problem with me, I am not holding any of my collection items at home. I will have to pull it out of safe and scan. One of my biggest projects for one of the next vacations is to scan and pic all my collection including all boxes and documents and ... and ... and ... oh my god I thin that this would be my project for the next couple of years BIG sorry ! regards Milan PS: by the way this was my posting #100 for a "Schreibmuffel" not too bad

Hallo Christian, Hallo Waldemar you should see the award documents going with this medal. Veeeery big size with huge autograph of S. Milosevic. Regards Milan

promised

Nice grab Kevin maybe I have a new task for you ..... searching and grabing the different varieties of this medal here is a small example of the differnt types (by far not complete, I am also hunting and grabing wherever I can) regards Milan