BalkanCollector

28 minutes ago, nickstrenk said:

Next group of Soviet documents

https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ján_Juraj_Korenko

Very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Do you perhaps have his Yugoslav Order of the Partisan Star 3rd class? I see on the wikipedia page that he was awarded with it.

"1948 – juhosl. Rad partizánskej hviezdy III. stupňa"

On 16/06/2012 at 15:34, JapanX said:

and back to the medals

 

Better quality photo

Strange that there is no Yugoslav Order of Freedom displayed. Only 7 awarded and Zhukov was one of them!

These are very interesting! Thanks for sharing them!

Such a beautiful mini bar! I really like that Chilean order.

Very beautiful! I like them in kind of a rough condition.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

That's so sad. I don't know if it's allowed to post sellers name publicly but I think I know who you're talking about. I've seen a few groups for sale separately. One group even included a document for the Partisan Star 3rd class which is kinda rare to see. Such a shame...

What happened with the document?

Those bars look amazing!

8 hours ago, seb16trs said:

But one question: in 1983 did this order come with both big diploma (na dthe wax state seal) and the small DIN A5 certificate? What was the rule?

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.

3 hours ago, seb16trs said:

Hello, should we conclude with certainty that it is a fake?

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!