JohanH

I see. Unfortunately my knowledge in languages are limited. As you might have noticed. 

But surely there must be someone here who knows Farsi?

No answers yet...

I am certain that there must be someone here who can read Arabic script?

Prinz Otto Emil Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg received the grand cross of the Swedish Order of the Sword on September 20th 1897.

Here is the entry for Poenaru in the order roll. 

He received the order on the same day (June 29th 1895) as Major Constantin Manescu. 

A few Spanish navy lieutenants also received the Order of the Sword the same day. 

Here is one of the most common combinations of Swedish orders. 

Knight of North star and knight of Vasa. 

Here is a pretty boring and un-impressive miniature bar but the original owner was CEO of one of Sweden's largest companies. 

I also have the large medalbar with the same medals. 

He received the Sankt-Olav Order on May 15th 1909.

I see. 

I bought them mainly because of the document to the Norwegian gold medal "til belønning for fortjenstlig virksomhet". 

Only 48 medals were awarded of that type! 

6 minutes ago, dedehansen said:

Hej JohanH,

 

I sa this group as well for sale, but have refrained from it. Here is the reason why:

 

https://digitaltmuseum.no/011012761388/portrett-av-even-christian-gjestvang-1853-1941-kise-mellom-nes-hedmark

 

Kind regards

 

Andreas

That is an great photo. Thanks for the link!

I wish I could find that miniature-chain!

Do you mean the part about reproductions in the museum archive? Or that you think the documents belong in the museum?

23 minutes ago, new world said:

Found an answer to why he's listed as a writer:

"G also published a small book about Bulgaria and a statistical compilation about Sweden's industries in the 1890s, as well as appearing in foreign magazines, mainly with a series of articles about Scandinavian printers in The British printer."

 

That's why he received this Bulgarian award - for writing a book about their country.

 

 

 

 

Sven is a common Scandinavian name, someone in awards office made this easy mistake.

 

Great document to a famous person! Congrats to new owner!

Yes, that's exactly what I wrote. He made a book about Bulgaria.

Sven is a Swedish name, the Norwegian form is Svein. Gjestvang was born in Norway and Even is a fairly common name in there.  

I don't know much about cyrillic, but I have always thought that S looked like a C in cyrillic.

So Sven would be something like Свен?

It is a very nice group of documents to a quite important person. Unfortunately there are three documents missing which the seller didn't have. They only had seven of the documents and as far as I know Gjestvang received ten medals/orders. 

Even Gjestvang did many things in his life. He was mainly a business man in the paper industry but also imported cars as early as 1903! He was also general consul of Persia in Sweden which gave him the order of the Lion and the Sun. 

If the document states him as a writer it must be that he got the order for a book about Bulgaria that he apparently wrote in 1896. 

If the document say Sven it must be a spelling error. His name was Even. 

Thanks Nick!

Hello!

I recently bought some documents belonging to a Norwegian-Swedish business man named Even Christian Gjestvang. 

Among the documents are this one from Bulgaria. Is it a document for a Civil merit order? 4th class?

Hello!

I recently bought some documents belonging to a Norwegian-Swedish business man named Even Christian Gjestvang. 

Among the documents are one that I think is from the Order of the Lion and the Sun, can anyone translate the document for me?

What does the text on the document say?

Attached are both sides of the large document. 

34 minutes ago, CRBeery said:

JohanH - I had not found your request until today! Hopefully you see this.

Great minibar! Really nice!

9 hours ago, christerd said:

Here is Franz Cohnitz , the man on the far left ( no 1) 

Not very good pic , but I will see if I can find a better one 

 

Christer

What book does the picture come from?

Hello!

What page are you looking for?

It is a great book!

Thanks!

So it is a lot rarer than I thought. 

Here is a photo of Ludvig. 

4 hours ago, Deruelle said:

Hi,

 

He received the knight cross 1st class with crown on 4 August 1913

 

Christophe

Thanks Christophe!

Do you have any idea of the number of orders with crown awarded?

Hello!

I have in my collection a lapelbow and a miniature from a Swedish architect named Ludvig Peterson (1853-1931). He was as far as I have found the only Swede that received the Albrechtorder with crown. The other awards on the lapel bow is Order of the North star and Order of Vasa. 

Is it possible to find out when Ludvig received the order from Saxony?

Does anybody know how many orders with crown that was awarded?

Hello!

I am trying to make a list over numbers and names of the Volunteers cross / Frivilligkorset that was given by Förbundet Svenska Finlandsfrivilliga. 

The first cross, number 1 was awarded in 1955 and the highest number I know of is 1095 and that cross was awarded in 1979. 

Does any of you know of any numbers with corresponding names?

Below is a picture of a cross belonging to Armémuseum in Stockholm. 

Number 299 was awarded to Bror Niper. 

17 hours ago, LuckySlevin said:

Understood, thank you a lot for sharing the information !!!

 

Thank you for mentioning the 2 names, it is quite surprising that this one was identifiable! 

This is the order of Sword he is offering: 

 

He says it is in gold, 17.69G and did not mention any hallmarks. 

 

I guess this one fits well into the story ?

Unfortunate about the enamel damage. Otherwise it is a very nice piece.

The price is a bit high but on the other hand it would be nice to have the original order that goes with the bar...

I agree. 800e is to much for a damaged piece. 

But you need to find one without any hallmarks. They started to hallmark Swedish orders and medals in 1914.

And of course it needs be to the gold version. The gilt version was given to foreigners since 1926. 

Nice work!

How much does he want for the Order of the Sword? 

If it is of any help Poenaru was in the Romanian Navy. 

He is listed as major in 1905 and as commander in 1914. He received the order of the Sword in 1895.

I don't know about the context but I can give you some numbers. 

Grand commander -  4

Commander 1st class - 10

Commander 2nd class - 29

Knight 1st class - still working on the roll so unknown so far. 

Knight 2nd class - 2

It seems like alot of awards were made on April 17th 1885. I believe the Swedish king made a state visit to Romania then.

IF your medalbar has a Order of the Sword it would probably be a Knight class, since the commander is a neck cross. I am working on the roll of recipients but it goes slowly. I have to many projects going.

I made a quick look in the Swedish state calendar of 1914 and found 12 romanians with the Knight 1st class. 

I also cross checked the names in the Danish state calendar of 1914 and found the following with both Order of Sword and Dannebrogorden:

Dimitrie Poenaru

Constantin Manescu 

It is possible that I missed some or that the Dannebrogorden was awarded later. Or the ribbon is of something different than Swedish and Danish.