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And here is another pic of the unknown General Christer

Awards in Wear ! I found theese pics of an Bulgarian GenLt ? at least his General and I think he has the badge State Security Honor on him, the pics are real small ! He also has some other badges that I cant recognize. And a BIG ribbon bar with 30 ribbons , sorry to say I cab?t get them out At least two Dimitrovs , Red Banner and ....... blurr At the back of one card there says something like Dimo Dimov ?? Anyone know who it is ? A General from Ministery of Interior ? Christer

And here is the award cert issued in 1988 to a Colonel Reorri Radkov Reorriev ?? Is that right spelling Christer

And here is a late awarded First class Order, notice the small hanger so called "baby" hanger theese come late 80s I think and not many orders/medals was awarded with this smaller hanger, but you often see loose orders/medals that not have been awarded with this small hanger. Christer

It not that easy to see on my pictures but the order is made out of at least three pieces 1 the "background" 2 the middle with roundel and text 3 the lion In the first issues the red is enamel I think, but the last issues seems to have plastic instead Christer

Inside the other box lies a I class , Gold award Christer

The inside of document, this was awarded in 1981 as usual in theese late docs there is no photo Would have been interesting to see what rank he had Christer

And the award cert for this II class He has no rank stated Christer

And here is the back which shows the construction with several parts.

And the beatiful multipiece Order Silver II class and Heavy !!

I hope this one haven?t been talked about earlier, I have to admit that I missed that Long service medals for Ministery of Interior had been discussed in another thread by Rick when I showed mine in another thread... But I think theese are new. The Order of Civil Valour and Merit shown in a earlier thread was instituted 1966 so its maybe a suprise that it took 8 years before Military personel got a similar order. 28th of May 1974 the new order was instituted in two classes Gold and Silver. I dont know on what grounds theese orders was awarded but only a total of 8746 pieces was awarded until 1991. Here is the two boxes for I and II class Christer

Wow ! Great Album Peter One of the few ships that had been sunk TWO times...... Super interesting story Christer

And here is my two boxes, both was delivered from seller with type 2b medals if I may call them so. Ministery of Interior old crest without dots in MVR. There is no crest on the box, but they do look old. I think there is a lot to learn about theese LS medals Christer

Hi Rick ! Lets see now : 1: Army Long Service 18th July 1959 2 different issues 1959-1971 and 1971-1991 2: For the Ministry of Interior personel, 27th August 1960 2 issues 1960-1971 and 1971 -1991 ( + Firemen 1960-1971 only first issue without MVR) 3: Ministery of Interior KDS late 1964 1 issue 1964-1969 4: Construction Corps June 1969 2 issues 1969-1971, (just two years) and 1971-1991 And I just realized that I missed one type completly Nr 2: The Ministery of Interior first issue with old state crest has TWO issues maybe 2a= old crest MVR 2b= old crest M.V.R 2c= Firemen without MVR 2d= new crest Here is pic of the two different issues of the 2a and 2b I hope I didn?t mess it up now.... Christer

And the two rare types at last , I only have one KDS, thats why I choiced to show you 2nd class medals.... The firebrigade version had the MVR on the bottom erased and its quite scarce but the last type with the letters KDS is even more scarce ! And if anyone have a box for a KDS version I would really like to see it (or a document) Now I am going out in the sun, its almost 30 C here in Sweden now som Iam boiled sitting inside with a hot computer Christer

But on the backside the differences appear ! First out is the two different state crests Before 1971 and after Christer

And here is the other type of Long service medals : To save time and space I show all 4 ! in one pic Theese are for the personel working for the Ministery of Interior Hmm, Police, Firebrigade and Secret Police of course.... KDS This is 2nd class of 4 different types look all the same dosn?t they? FRONT

And the early ones with the old crest < 1971 Puh , and then all the docs..... I have a lot of hunting to do ? Christer

And the backs with the crest post 1971 This is a real collectors challenge to get all the varations I still have some more to go ! Christer

And then of course there is the ordinary soldiers long service : For Army Personal Here is 1st, 2nd and 3rd class Front Christer

:jumping: Great set Rick, I especially like the doc with all threee classes in it ! I havent seen any boxes for theese medals , maybe they where to "common" to have there own box? Here my examples of Construction Corps with the earlier crest before 1971, I realized that I only have 1st and 2nd class So now I have the hunt for a third class medal and some docs..... The third class was for 10 years , 2nd = 15 years and 3rd = 20 years I think thats the same for all types. Christer

And a pic of the medal on the backside! odf the award cert I haven?t got a cert for the construction medal but I suppose it looks very the same? Christer

And the inside of the doc, this one awarded to a civilian ? woman from Sofia There is no rank but the number 35650 maybe is the unit? similar to Soviet stamped docs?? Christer

And of course thare is a award cert for theese Here is the cert for the 25 years Army medal Front

And the back with a different text Christer