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are you speaking about the partisan star? I don't know today if the diploma is related to this award. You know as well as me how chaotic can be the path of an awards group between the veteran and a caring collector...

coming soon...

those groups are astounding and a pleasure to view, thanks Bob!

and the 4 documents.

consisting in:

10 years insignia for service to the people

medal for merit in national defense

medal for participation to the struggle for defense of the people power.

bronze medal for strenghtening public order

hello, here's a group for a militia sergent.

hello, I have the polish-language reference written by Stefan Oberleitner. He indicates 20392 crosses by 1989.

Leighkitchen, the set I showed you in another post is for sale on polish net, on "buy it now" for 80usd approx....

hello , I haven't been clear enough, really sorry for that.

I suspect every item, from #1 to #4. It worries me I can find these sets for cheap price on polish internet, although these medals are theoritically scarce.

About the item #3, I don't like the signature on the document.

I would like to know if it is normal to find easily such scarce awards? (I intimately believe not). Do you think the sets I shown you here have problems?

thanks again for your kind advices.

You are quite right. The "Victory of Socialism" was a one-class order established in 1971 and awarded together with the title of "Hero of the Socialist Republic of Romania" (if I remember right).

so in this configuration/combination, we could consider it as an equivalent of the series of orders of Lenin/Dimitrov/Karl Marx/Gottwald and Ho Chi Minh?

well, nw, all these shown, what's my problem?

prestigious or rare awards for sale at really cheap prices. It underlines a question: are these fakes? What can we say about diplomas? We're speaking of awards given to less than 50000 ex, which is really few.

I would be very glad to exchange informations and sources with keen polish, russian and others collectors about the problem of polish faking.

the silesian cross: approx 25000ex.

a document for the rare cross of braves 38000 approx.

about this one, you'll see the award name is typed and the signature, not stamped as usual, is ridiculous. Enough in my opinion to light on a red lamp!

it was the pretisgious medal "for bravery on the field of honor".

now here's a partisan cross ... 76000ex.

well, I'm very puzzled to see on polish internet prestigious but non extremly well known polish awards for sale.

I focus on communist-era awards. But most military awards were as rares as their western or republican counterparts.

given my reflexs about soviet phaleristics, all my warinig lights go red when I see that:

38000 ex.

hello Rick, you're right about this third type suspension (epoxy lacquer); it fears high temperatures... don't touch them directly during hot summers!

hello, the white piping seems huge the sewer was generous!

hello, I believe this order is not common - I'm not original stating that. Do you have any infos about awarding statistics?

here's the civilian grouyp I'm waiting for:

Aha! 5-6-5 years apart-- so perhaps AUTOMATIC (long service?) awards?

I've never seen a SET before to guess at this from the award dates.

well, the question is worth answering... I'm waiting for a second group including two classes, bronze and silver, with 5 years between each awarding too...

here's a grouping for the all 3 classes of the very known and common order of "merit cross"

and the 3rd one... no diploma, and put in a box for a table medal... but with 2 ribbons. Should I believe it was originaly belonging to the same grouping? I bought it too.

this is the cross "for the fidelity of the federation of liberated political prisoners and survivors of the nazi regim"

the second medal, a badge of honor of the comitee of anti-fascists fighters

here's a group medals from a same man; still 3 differents sellings on the same E-stand...

the medal for meritorious fighter against fascism.

hello, I suppose VM5 is the Virtuti Military 5th class...K means "krzyz", or cross. O KW is for Krzyz Walecznych, or Braves Cross; KZ means Krzyz Zaslugi, or Merit Cross (very common) in gold (zloti) and silver (srebnim). Gold and silver words are relly close to russian and yugoslav orthograph.

many thanks for your feedback!