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Miniature is Carol II type.

The well

Ottomans and a remarkable dagger of the Markgrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden

The Battle of Petrovaradin, 1716.

Medal of Cultural Merit also existed, if I remember well in two classes. They were also being worn on different types of ribbons depending on the category and have two types with Carol II or Mihai on the front side.

Cannons

Serbian and Austro-Hungarian decorations

Weapons and equipment

A friend visited Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad and sent me a few images. Machineguns

I've mentioned this watch before in a topic about Yugoslav Pilots' Breitling Pluton. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find photos of it on my hard drive so I asked a friend to send me a few more again. Anyway it's a manual-winding flyback chronograph with Valjoux 230 movement. It belonged to a friend's grandfather who was a Yugoslav fighter pilot back in the day. I don't know when exactly did he receive the watch, probably in the late sixties or seventies.

My pleasure.

Don't mention it. Couple of links that might be useful. http://forum.valka.cz/topic/view/86336 http://www.ordersandmedals.ro/ordine-romanesti/regat-kingdom And for ribbons: http://medals.pl/ro/ro1.htm

Claudius already mentioned some of the issues that caught my attention as well, I'd like to point out just couple of things. First of all the central part is hollow, there's no base bellow the monograms, you can see through it, that's not the case with other shown examples. It also appears to be larger and not centered. In my opinion hallmark on the back side is Cyrillic VD (ВД) and the badge from Imperia has the same hallmark: http://www.auction-imperia.ru/wdate.php?t=offline&i=5227 Same producer?

Although Romanian decorations are not my filed I I did a little research some time ago about that particular order. Like you said it has four grades, commander (worn around the neck), officer (breast decoration with crown, gilded), knight 1st class (same as officer but not gilded) and knight 2nd class (without crown). Every category has its own ribbon, I think white with purple edges is for literature. Apart from the order there are also medals, if I remember well in two classes. PS Romania is placed in the "Central & Eastern European States" category, maybe the topic would attract more attention there.

I started this topic on behalf of a fellow collector who has acquired this badge recently. As I am far from expert for Imperial Russia we would be grateful if someone could give us definitive answer whether it's original or not. All comments are more than welcome.

Order of Sretenje 3rd Class awarded to the Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković".

Order of Sretenje 2nd Class awarded to elementary school "Braća Aleksić" from Lipljan on the occasion of 150 years since its institution.

Order of the Serbian Flag 1st Class awarded to Sergey Lavrov.

Order of the Star of Karađorđe 3rd Class awarded to Marina Maljković.

Many republics also have flag and/or coat of arms with crown, orb and scepter, just to name a few, Russia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic...

Order of the Star of Karađorđe 3rd Class awarded to Ivana Španović.

Order of Merits in Defense and Security 3rd Class awarded to the 224th Electronic Warfare Center.

Order of Merits in Defense and Security 3rd Class awarded to the 204th Air Brigade.

Order of Merits in Defense and Security 3rd Class awarded to the Special Brigade.

If I'm not mistaken the following units were decorated with the Order of the People's Hero: -124th Police Intervention Brigade -37th Motorized Brigade -125th Motorized Brigade -549th Motorized Brigade -63rd Parachute Brigade -126th Air Surveillance/Intelligence and Guidance Brigade - 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade