christerd

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

And now the Twin (almost)

Notice almost the saame design and the same ribbon but this is for 25th Anniversary of the Construction troops

Both Military and civilian personal had to have at least 10 years of service to get this medal.

Front, compare with the earlier one and you see how similar they are.

Christer

Back of the medal , notice the text , there is some differences between the medals but they are not extreme and

sometimes people mix up theese two.

Hi all, Theese two medals are instituted the same year and they are very similar

they even have the same ribbon

But they are two different medals even if they share the Anniversary

First out : Medal for 25 Anniversary of Bulgarians Peoples Army

instituted July 1968 awarded to military personal with at least 10 years of service or civilaian in the Armed forces with at least 15 years of service

also awrded to foreigners.

Designed by ? Of course the one and only Raycho Peev (who designed most of Bulgarias medals and orders during this time.)

Front

And here is the quite rare certificate, this medal was awarded to a Woman named Zsra Borisova Dintjeva (did I get that right?)

And if I translate the town right it should be Pazardzhik ? a town in south east of Bulgaria

Christer