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Hello. What about the Regulation of Awards of Russian Federation: http://award.gov.ru/pol.html The part V covers the order of precedence.

There is 3 volume "Royal Service". I understand the recipient list is available in there. Bit I also have read that in the "first years" (whatever it means exactly), the list of foreign recipient was not complete.

Thanks, Alex, for sharing your view. For me medals as objects are interesting through the story of the owner and owners personality acting in historical events. In the cases when the owner is unknown (really most cases for me so far) it is the historical event medals represent, that is the focus, not the medal it self. For me anyway. So therefore, with my perspective, it is OK to swap the ribbon to an other one that is as close as possible to the original one. But I would not want to deviate too far from the mainstream view on this either. But agree, keeping the old worn original one maybe helpful if one day the new owner finds it fancy.

Does this Victory medal look authentic?

Hello, could you, please, advice on this ORB. What would be a reasonable price?

I really not the one to judge. OK. I guess it is autentic.

The price on Russian marked is 150-1500 USD depending on model and quality. But I am kind of in doubd about autenticity anyway. Feels like a cast, no?

I have to correct myself. The cross was awarded free to all the clerics. Here a couple of photo examples. source: http://hrizma-uvelir.ru/iz-istorii-napersnogo-kresta/

OK, but it is a comemorative award. I am not sure it qualifies to be called order. All the clerics got right to wear such comemorative cross. So they had to self pay for the cross to wear it. You can see different types of this cross here: http://medalirus.ru/pamyatnie-medali/pamyat-300-dom-romanovyh-krest.php I also think it is original.

This is not an order. This looks to me as an object linked to comemoration off the 300 years aniversary of the Romanov dynasty in 1913.

Hello. I would like to consult the honorable members of the forum. Earlier this year I aquired the set of miniature medals to Cpl. S. Maunder. As you see from the pictures, the ribbons are very worn, and the star's ribbon is torn to pieces. I also aquired some proper silk ribbons. So should I fix the star? Or all four maybe? Otherwise, what is acceptable practice in the case is a medal comes completely without a ribbon? Can I replace it f.ex with contemporary old ribbon from another medal and call this repaired medal original? You see, how far can I go before we say it is tampering with the object? Cheers! Igor

Oh, he did wear them all right! Челиков Владимир Иванович 05.03.1915 - 07.10.2008

The numbers of his OG 1, 2, 3: 1941 - 14731 - 275662

Titskij (Тицкий) born 1924, otherwise had full bar of OG, all 3 grades. He served in recon unit since Dec 1942. OGIII in jan 1944. OGII in feb 1945. OGI in Jun 1945. He lived a long life, worked at aliminium plant, and lived in Volgograd. This of course all interesting if this a genuine order.

No, I don't. But this one is googlable in Russian. Is it sold with provenance?

Cann't comment on autenticity. The number engraving looks odd though. But otherwise that is a known number for OGII to Titskij Aleksandr Fedorovich (Jan 1945).

Is the number 14731?

I see, thank you, Paul, for the comment. Then what about the rank? Is it again painters mistake or? Check out his epaulet. It seem fairly certainly established that the painting was done between October 1860 and April 1864. In this period the regultions from 1858 were valid. According to it, NO rank had such epaulet. The Orlogskaptajn epaulet has the crown, roset, the anchor and of large fringe(see #4 on illustration). The intendant's epaulet had no fringe at all, and two small stars each side of the anchor (see #7). On the painting the epaulet appears to be a mix between Orlogskaptajn and intendant. Could the insignia be mixed like that? He was the director for the naval maps archive at that time, as well as a shipyard comission member during that time.

The booklet is a prayer book with two different names writen on it. Both could be the owners name. But the lower namer seem to come first and if related to the badge, may indicate the badge owner.

I don't know know about autenticity of that piece. Don't have experience to judge But did you ask for the exact weight and size of it?

This is a jeton (graduation badge) of the First Cadet Corps in Petrograd (1916). CIXVIII denotes graduation, not the year (see item 389 in the book scan). Here it was on sale (lot 326) and was sold for 65000 RUB, which is like 1K USD or something. It is said to be rare one.

Not really. The sword and caduceus is an atribute of 2nd Moscow cadet corps, I think.

The reverse translates to: "For good memory to dear ally".

Yeah, looks like. But... the decirations and the rank don't quite match. Will check more when home. I don't think, his Danebrog decorations should be with Christian IX's cypher. His name is Hans Peter Rothe (1813-1905). Rank: 24. marts 1858: Orlogskaptajn Decirations: 20. september 1847 - Ridder af Dannebrogordenen 6. oktober 1860 - Dannebrogsmændenes Hæderstegn 21. april 1864 - Kommandør af 2. grad af Dannebrogordenen 17. januar 1883 - Kommandør af 1. grad af Dannebrogordenen See, then the portrait must have been painted between 1860 and 1864 (only 2 first decorations depicted). But then both of them were awarded under Frederik VII. Then why the Royal cypher of Christian IX's? This could be artist's liberty or intention.