Dragomir

This is a carneval decoration. Dragomir

Gentlemen, Guyana is not an African country!. Regards, Dragomir

Pour mes amis! Once mentioned, Dragomir replies> This is the 2nd Class Cross of the Charitable Foundation of St. Andrew the First Called Apostle, founded in London exile during II WW by Yugoslavian Queen Marie (Dowager of Queen Aleksandar I and mother of King Peter II). The Cross was awarded in three classes (1st Class worn from necklet, 2nd Class as pictured, and 3rd Class, which is basically same, only not gilt). Dragomir

Sorry, Definitely not Bosniaks. The cap is not sort of fez, it is a fur cap, and the standing man in the back has even more pronounced cap of the similar type. My guess is Serbian or Bulgarian.

in my opinion it has nothing to do with Russia. The other photo shows two (probably) Georgian women. The first one, however, apparently shows the man with triangularly folded medal ribbons, which is highly unusual for Russia. Dragomir

Gentlemen, Whatever this might be, it is definitely not a Serbian decoration. Dragomir

Unknown is Ukraina's Order of Yaroslav the Wise. Dragomir

In fact, the cross appears to be modeled upon St. Mark's Cross of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, and in that case, perhaps, initials PP could stand for Pope Peter or Patriarch Peter ( Peter VII, penultimate Patriarch of Alexandria, who perished in helicopter crash). I am not sure that the star has anything to do with the cross (or am I wrong?). Dragomir

Well, according to Décret n°147/PR. du 14 août 1963 portant création du « Mérite civique du Tchad », the grade of Commander is a neck badge, with 60 mm diamater.

Chief of the Order insignia. Dragomir

Ups! The size was to big.

And the accompanying sash badge. Dragomir

Emmanuel, Brilliant as always! May I contribute Order of Merit GC star of another model! Dragomir

And the fourth, barely recognizable, but might help anyway> The Order of Merit for Arts, Literature and Communications, printed as illustration upon the Order/s Diploma. Dragomir

Here comes the third> The Order for Commercial merit. Dragomir

ОК Gentlemen! Emmanuel reigns supreme! I am enjoying every new picture. Let me contribute a little, notwithstanding bad quality of pictures. First, here comes medal of Honour of Firefighters. Three categories> Star of gold, Star of Slver, Star of bronze. Dragomir

Antonio, the PDF of the mentioned article would be extremely valuable, as Orden militar de la constancia and all the data regarding it are very elusive. Best regards, Dragomir

Megan, You are back! I am relieved and happy.I feared something happened to you. Yours, Dragomir

Sorry Gentlemen, I just noticed I missed to add that Denmark's Elephant is also not here. It was returned as per Statutory request. Dragomir

Hello Bob, Orders and Medals are in the Museum, but they are not exhibited for the public inspection. In fact, the actual treasure is not within compound of the Museum, and the responsible persons have to request for permission always they need an item for official purposes, but the collection does belong to the Museum and is properly inventoried, documentad and listed. Last time the entire collection was on display in Belgrade is 1980-1981. That was second display ever, the first one being in 1967. At the time of preparation for the 2nd display, I had opportunity to inspect directly all the items and the accompanying documentation. Third display was in Zagreb in 1986. After that, the items were tucked away, but they are still there, except for the GC of the Bath, military group, which was promptly returned to UK. The exhibition room at the Square of Nikola Pasic belongs presently to another Museum (Serbian History Museum). They also have some valuable items in their collection, but the Museum, in fact, has no permanent exhibition space and therefore it's collections are only occasionally displayed at other places. Yours, Dragomir

All of his orders and medals, with exception of the Austro-Hungarian Silver Bravery Medal, are presently in Belgrade, in Museum of History of Yugoslavia. Collar of St. Olav's Order was exhibited in 2009 within a temporary exhibition of twelve strange objects from Tito's treasury that had to do something with notion of death! That was a rather complicated theme, and I would not go into details, but among other items Stalin's gold-and-diamonds saber was also displayed. Dragomir

Just keep in mind that they erroneously changed indentification of photos of Orders of Stefanik and Stur. Regards, Dragomir

Sorry, my mistake in previous attempt. I received my copy yesterday. It is worth any farthing you pay for it. Absolutely fantastic, spectacular and filled to the brim with valuable information: variants, trial pieces, documents, photographs, assay marks, ... Photographs are first class. All in all, BOOK TO TREASURE! Dragomir

Thank you James. Regarding torches, you are certainly right, only I erroneously considered both things to be palms of different design. Regards, Dragomir