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Heres a group of society badges.

George

top center badgeRewarding badge of the imp.Rus.Fire service

center is the monogram of Grand duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, honorary Chairman of the society.

Left, badge for members of the railway fire brigades came in bronze and silver grades. see full eagle on top.

right, and lower center and mini, Imperial russian fire society. crown on top

came in three grades

gold silver and bronze.

Gold, Honorary members and donators

silver lifelong members-competitors

bronze, the right to wear this badge was givin to some full time members of the society as well as to personnel os fire brgades.

worn on the left chest.

I found Chucks badge in my "The badges of Russa" book

Blue cross society as chuck states.

Here are specs. of presention.

George

MY Gosh Chuck,

Send them to me..

I'll get them displayed

George

I understand completely..

It was either get married or keep collecting..

I'm still collecting, And my dog dosent care as long as there are cookies for her.

George

WOW a Generals at that...

Did it come complete with decorations?

I'm not sure is there a chevron on the rt. sleeve?

I thought Chevrons were only worn after the revolution.?

Great

George

Great order.. I cant wait till I find one I can afford!

George

Heres a group of society badges.

George

heres another

Naval officer 1920's China

George

Hi Rick,

I do not think Tsarist russia wore ribbon bars. They are 1 inch across each.

I have a couple of pics of white officers wearing bars, but only after 1918.

I also thought the St George would be first.

I was guessing this was put together by the officers wife after 1920 and he just used it as is.?

emigre wear?

Who knows

Thanks

George

Out of curiosity, would he be of the same family as the late Tsar Nicholas II? Another great place to find Russian books is at this website: http://www.uuu.ru. Use a translation service. They have tons of books and they speak english. I have ordered from them in the past.

Hi Danny,

Yes he is a direct descendant of Tzar Nicolas 1.

Thanks for the link

I'll look into it..

George

Here are two 4th class awards showing the differences in what kind of colors you can expect to find.

red enamel on the gilt bronze and a deep dake red on the 56 gold version..

George

Silver and enamel

George

Heres a nice example of a lawyers/barristers cape or cloke chain..

George

Heres a ribbon bar I picked up a little while ago.

Shows wear and looks to be original, ie not messed with.

Could this combination order be correct.

2 st annas w/swords, St stauslas w/swords and the st george ribbon

Could it be a White Russian post 1918 set up?

made very much as the germans did..

thanks

George

Yes have that too..

Forgot that one

great info on awards and medals..

He autographed my copy !

George

This one always makes me think of the scene in Doctor Zhivago where the elderly retread leads the cadet school boys into the Red machine guns--

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although it bears a Berlin-Charlottenburg Photo Atelier origin on back, it was mailed "In Russia" by a member of the 83rd Infantry Division the first week of Aprl 1916, making no comment on the image-- just a useful postcard sized piece of paper... and leaving us to wonder when and where it was taken, of whom, and how it came into the possession of private Richard Jungmann of IR329....

I stole this from another site

Military Order No. 106 (March 9, 1913) stated that, except Cavalry, almost all Line units would wear a removable plastron for winter parade dress. Color of plastron and piping were to be as follows:

General officers:

- Infantry : red

- Artillery, Engineers, etc: black (velvet/officers) , red piping

General Staff: black (velvet/officers), red piping

Grenadier regiments: yellow with piping according to division: 1st: red, 2nd: blue, 3rd: white; 4th: yellow.

1st Nevsky Infantry regiment: red with white piping

2nd Sofiisky Infantry regiment: light blue with white piping

Other Infantry regiments:

- 1st regiment of division: red (no piping)

- 2nd reg.: blue

- 3rd reg.: white

- 4th reg: dark green or black; red piping

Rifle regiments: raspberry

Artillery, Engineers, Railway, Aviation: black (velvet/officers), red piping

Most other units wore dark green with red piping.

So he was a Grenadier Reg officer before ww1 1913 era

George

Nice collection of books. Which one would you suggest that covers all the awards, not just the badges, and preferable in english. Thanks

Hi Danny,

None of them cover it all..

Reg badges I like

" Chest Regiment badges or Russia"

its in russian german and english..

for orders, general info.

"The orders of Russia"

by V.A.Durov

and if you can find it

"badges of Imperial russia"

in english by Sergie Andolenko

trans by Robert Werlich

You can sometimes find on ebay..

or here at collect russia.com

http://www.collectrussia.com/

George

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Here are a few shots of reference books

Sadly I cannot read the Russian only ones..

George

Hi Rick all the ones with green felt are my own..

I added the felt as a display prop..

Most badges are screw back with backing plates..fro me harder to see details

George

Hi Rick,

I may be mistaken..

My understanding of Reg. badges is that they were authorized at the 100 yr anniversary, or more.

I think em and officers were allowed wear. usually Officers had silver/gold and enamel examples and em were not enameled..and made of brass.

I think the wearer had to purchase there own..not awarded.

George

Heres my czarist, base metal Medical badge..

Crowns removed for wear after adbication .

George

Nice piece. The Solid Gold badges are sooooo hard to find.

My books show it as the 13 th Erivan Life-Grenadier Regiment of His Majesty..

George

Heres a small frame I put together of Pilots stuff

Provisional shoulder board eagle Pilots badge and another Mini pilots badge

George