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If you are sure it is gold, then it must be 8 carat model. The Frederik IIX gold medal wad struk in 24 carat gold in 1906-1909. And 1909 to 1912 in 8 carat. The later must see whiter. I think yours is 8 carat then. About the recipient list, let's see what Michael has to say.

Exciting stuff!

Just one correction. This medal is not in god. I think I wad deceived by yellowish glow on the photo. It is a silver medal without crown. The list should be much longer than 99. But in the Royal Calender, there are almost no foreign names (except one Norwegian) for 1906-1912 period. Just been to the library. If you trust, that this group is not artifitially made, then an option could be, that this medal was given without suspension piece, i.e. without right to bear. But the owner ordered privatly the suspention to be added. I say so, brcause the Danish Royal Calender only mentions medals with bearing permission (in that period anyway). Maybe it is time you show us the whole group. Don't be shy!

OK, OK. I understood that it was mainly Christian IX who was known to hand out these medals liberally without much paperwork. Or paperwork that was supposed to be done later, which often never happen properly. But the later Dansh monarchs introduced more order into this process. So I was hopping that the Frederik IIX pulled himself together and streamlined the process. Though I am afraid it actually happened much later. So THAT is why I was thinking to be able to find the list in the "Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender".

Michael, don't you think the list should be in the "Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender"?

So, Andreas, you know the name already?

Hello Andreas. I don't have the rolls. I might have an idea where to look them up in the archive or library. But this may take some time and I am curently top busy at work.

Right, the VM is the one most interesting here.

OK. But lets also explain for others shell they be interested. The rest of the medals are worn in the order as registered in the Geraldic Register. Simply speaking by date of issue. So it is easier than we thought.

He-he... Haven't you got your answer already, Канадец?

Thanks! So you think I should invest? How would you value the whole lot? Feel like an idiot, not being able to read Japanese...

It is a gold medal without crown. 99 awards in 6 years. So the potential list is bot that long. But probably there were several German awardees, so without extra information it cannot be identified. Hpw does the reverse look like?

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