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Order of Osmanieh awarded to Vukašin Šećerović.

It's a shame that this astonishing piece is not on a permanent display. We are lucky that you brought camera with you 5 years ago

Thanks again, my knowledge is pretty slim when it comes to Romanian decorations.

I think it is the top one, also the case is Huguenin's. But that doesn't have to mean anything considering that there is also one Albanian Retreat Medal in the blue box for the Order of Saint Sava One more problem with those dots is that Sorlini used both combinations, top one blue with the one below it red and the other way around. Original size.

Order of the Crown of Italy 3rd class made by Cravanzola awarded to Vukašin Šećerović.

Order of the Yugoslav Crown 3rd class made by Huguenin awarded to Mirka Grujić (Мирка Грујић).

Thanks for clarification, silver stripe in the middle of the ribbon means it's for 2nd type of the order from 1932?

Don't mention it. Could you please tell us where is this piece exhibited?

Many thanks for that Carol! By the looks of saint I would say that it was made by Arthus-Bertrand.

Order of the Star of Romania 3rd class.

Order of the Phoenix 3rd class (1935 type) made by Huguenin and awarded to Vukašin Šećerović (Вукашин Шећеровић) as the most of the others.

Couple of days ago exhibition "Hidden treasure from the Home of Jevrem Grujić" (Скривенo благo Дома Јеврема Грујића) ended. Text in Serbian about it: http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/sr/story/16/Kultura/1521576/Skriveno+blago+Doma+Jevrema+Gruji%C4%87a.html Some photos I took the last day. First decorations, unfortunately most of the names were incomplete (described as the order of that and that ruler) and some were completely wrong, for example Greek Order of the Phoenix was described as Order of Polonia Restituta.

Don't mention it, thanks for photos!

To be honest the order looks genuine to me, the only question I have was it originally with swords or not. I can't think of reason why would someone take them off but who knows. Perhaps someone made a mistake during the process of production... Also one Bertrand's example of the Order of the Star of Karađorđe with Swords 4th class with "ЗА ХРАБРОСТ" inscription on both sides is shown in the Car&Muhić book.

Back side.

Just for comparison.

I would say typical Bertrand

My first thought also was that someone enameled Soldier's star but it has no swords. And the crown is not enameled which is not the case with the most of the orders without swords.

I forgot to mention that the abbreviation НФЈ on the front side stands for Народни фронт Југославије meaning People's Front of Yugoslavia. Inscription ЗА ПОЖРТВОВАНИ РАД below it means for devoted labor.

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This seemed like a best topic for the following order from emedals. Combination of the Order of the Star of Karađorđe with Swords for soldiers (1914-16) and the Order of the Star of Karađorđe (without swords). Very interesting, perhaps even unique order. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-77156600-1395057550.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-70719700-1395057577.jpg

Peoplе's Front Order for Devoted Labor (perhaps better translation of Орден Народног фронта за пожртвован рад) was established in 1948, number of awarded pieces is as far as I know not known, some speculate around 3000. I've seen pieces with numbers from two figures up to almost 3K so that could be true.

To be honest real or fake I don't like. Same seller offered the regular medal at the same time, this one achieved much bigger price so who knows... Rest of the pictures. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-13566600-1394824842.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-63023500-1394825428.jpg

This piece was sold couple of weeks ago on ebay. I have never seen a medal like that before, back side looks just like the front side of the Silver Medal and the front side is also very different from the ones we usually see. Rare variant, prototype or something else? http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-44578600-1394656552.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-95364700-1394656562.jpg

Plate from the same seller. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-83846600-1394051375.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_03_2014/post-7937-0-36931300-1394051381.jpg