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I really don't know, I'm curious myself. Hopefully, someone can answer this.

Remarkable bars, thank you all for sharing them with us!

Nice! Hope you get those items and I'm looking forward to seeing them once you got them, especially medals.

It says "Zhitomir Partisan 1941-1944". Zhitomir is a city in Ukraine so my guess is that it's their commemorative medal for the partisans who participated in Zhitomir area.

I'd love to hear more opinions. I'm not saying this is 100% fake, but I think it is, because hallmarks look like two pentagonal holes dug into the piece and they don't even represent a rooster and an "IKOM" logo, just some bad shapes inside of a hole. Plus, these started to appear only a year ago if I'm not mistaken. And again we're hearing the story that it's from the supplies. I have my doubts about those supplies and my personal opinion is that we're not being told the truth and that someone is pushing the agenda to sell fakes. However, I could be totally wrong and during the last few years I've changed my opinion on these being real and fake quite a few times so it's very hard for me to be certain on this matter. Hope I helped you!

Kind of a late reply but have you managed to add any more items to this theme? Very interesting branch of collecting for sure! Love the armband!

A lot of these started appearing lately and all of them which I saw were offered as replicas. Here are all three classes. I've seen them somewhere for auction and I think the starting price was 30 bucks or so. Notice that they failed with the second class. It looks like a silver first class.

They don't. It's a box for Austria-Hungary Merit Cross. Here's an example in the exact box: (photo taken from the internet)

I might be wrong but I think this medal relates to both Sweden and Finland. Finland because of the rose and the lion in the bottom left and Sweden because of the crown and two Nordic cross flags.

These are magnificent! I really like to see old medal bars even if I don't collect them myself.

An ebay find. The back of the order looks awful. Plus, there appears to be a very poor 950 hallmark on the back.

My newest uncomplete group consisting of "Spomenica 1941" and an early Order for Merits for the People 2nd class awarded in 1948. It belonged to a Colonel of a technical branch of service. He was a commander of company (četa) in the 1st Lika Proletarian Brigade during the People's Liberation War. Some of you have probably seen his spomenica and I've acquired his other award this week. Order for Merits for the People 2nd class

Remarkable! Any closer shots on the hallmarks?

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

Remarkable group Daffy!

Very nice Eric, thanks for sharing!

Absolutely magnificent!

Great addition Eric! I'm glad it arrived safely.

Hello! What do you think about this one? Is it real and is it possible that everything (booklet, medal and box) is period and not some made up group. Any help is much appreciated!

Stunning!

I agree, the bar in the top left corner looks remarkable! Any chance of closer shots?

Can't wait to see

You're welcome!

It is indeed from socialist Yugoslavia. The writing on the box from top to bottom: an amblem of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, writing "Socialist Republic of Serbia" and "people's defense". The badge itself says "We don't want what's other's and we won't give what's ours". It was a famous political parole in Yugoslavia and the badge is most likely political. Unfortunately I don't know what was it given for.

Most interesting, thank you for sharing!