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Posts posted by paja
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Unfortunately that's the case with most of the modern era decorations. Still, compared with orders of some other ex-Yu republics looks pretty decent.
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Order of Sretenje 2nd Class awarded to the National Library of Serbia in 2013 for 180 years of existence.
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Order of the Yugoslav Star 2nd class, Belorussian lieutenant general Nikolai Cherginets (Мікала́й Чаргіне́ц).
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Very nice! I especially like the right one, unknown producer?
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I was going through some old topics and stumbled upon this one, I completely forgot about it.
That "Association of recipients of the Albanian retreat medal miniature" was actually issued by the Association for Preserving the Traditions of the Serbian Liberation Wars Until 1918 in 1975.
Article by S. Radan, R. Mandić and N. Bjeloš published in Serbian magazine Dinar.0 -
First & second class badges and lower classes are not problematic, but stars are sometimes difficult to read, at least I'm not always sure which is which
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One more photo from B. Bogdanović's article published in Politikin magazin.
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I think Ludwig Wilhelm's dagger is from the Belgrade Military Museum, here's a photo from their website.
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Don't mention it, Ulric. Here's a link to their website in case someone decides to visit it:
https://www.muzejvojvodine.org.rs/index.php/eng/0 -
Miniature is Carol II type.
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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.
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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.0 -
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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:
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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?
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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.0
Russian Cadet Corps Badge
in Russia: Imperial
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Here's one more, looks like the seller copied text from this topic in his description.
LINK