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Yeah, thats the modern times for you.. They didn't revive the romanian crown order did they?

And I didn't even know that the order was alive! Was it re-established after the fall of communism? I did know that Michael Vitezu was alive and well, but this bit of news has escaped me..

Thanks Hardy!

Yeah, the people and the restraints of time and money they have to follow. In the modern world, quality takes second place to those two elements.

Yes. Reproductions are getting better and the originals are getting worse. A sad state of affairs. Tillander in Helsinki used to manufacture finnish awards and orders with high quality standards, but most of the production was moved to the state mint years ago. The quality diminished noticeably. Today Tillander only makes the collars for our main orders. I suppose that's better than nothing, since those are precisely the awards where you should see quality.

Thanks for the scans Carol. It's a sad fact that the quality of awards has diminished everywhere. Craftmanship and quality prolly reached it's peak at the turn of the last century and it's been downhill ever since.

That's a good bar in my book.

Working for a better tomorrow..

Working....

Thanks Hardy!

Thank YOU for standing up to the forces of international anti-collecting stupidity-- and winning!

Smooth sailing all the way. It was a good auction, albeit beign responsible for all those awards was rather exhausting, especially near the end.

Doing my thing....

Working..

Luckily I'm here watching Jani's back. Tomorrow will be an interesting day for sure. No hassle from the Russian embassy today during the viewing... Let's hope it will stay that way.

A fine example Andreas!

Top notch!

Interesting.. I do have general knowledge on bulgarian orders, but it doesn't go this deep. I'd be very curious to find out what the obvious difference stands for.

Congrats on acquiring a lovely bar.

Thanks for sharing!

Remember to take a good loong break every now and then, 5 hours a day in this kind of work is plenty to handle, even for younger people.

Still very much at it...

Still at it..

A very realistic supposition Andreas! A real beauty!

It has the signs of beign a jubileum case for sure. The case looks very familiar, but I can't quite remember witch jubileum medall I've seen inside one of these...

Well done Paul!