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I've found that information on a certain forum, I don't know how reliable it is... I'm not an expert for Slovenian partisan commemorative medals nor do I have proper literature that deals with that field. Maybe some of the members from Slovenia can help us resolve this issue.
When it comes to the People's Liberation Order situation is different, 262 is the number of awarded orders, not number of numbered ones. As we know orders were not being awarded according to their number so it's not so unusual to see, for example, decoration with larger number awarded before one with smaller number.
Also even though there are bunch of People's Liberation Orders (Yugoslav type) on the market (including fakes) I've never seen examples with number as high as 1000. So far I haven't had a chance to see an order with number over 5XX.0 -
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I stumbled upon one more here.
Looks like nice, numbered example, winning bid:US $21.50
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The Coronation of King Petar I of Serbia
Realized by Arnold Muir Wilson, lawyer, journalist and honorary consul of the Kingdom of Serbia in Sheffield and Frank Storm Mottershaw, cinematographer of the "Sheffield Photo Company"0 -
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Unfortunately it's nowhere near as famous as St. Stephen's crown. Even here most of the people don't know anything about this
amazing piece of Serbian medieval history...
Anastas Jovanović's lithograph "The Coronation of Stefan Dečanski"
The fresco of king Stefan Dečanski, Visoki Dečani monastery
Visoki Dečani monastery located in Metohija, UNESCO World Heritage Site0 -
Don't mention it, some of the photos are from the royalfamily website.
Obrenović dynasty didn't have coronation regalia as they were not actually crowned but only anointed.
Fortunately some of the Serbian medieval regalia of the Nemanjić dynasty survived. Crown of saint king Stefan Dečanski, father of emperor Dušan the Mighty, is kept at Cetinje monastery, Serbian Orthodox monastery in Montenegro. It was used during coronation of king Nikola I Petrović.
I've read some article in which the author claims there are at least two more Serbian medieval crowns, one being kept in the Royal Treasury Museum in Vienna and the other one in Budapest.
Crown of Stefan Dečanski from the 14th century (he was crowned in 1322).0 -
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Yes, of course, I was in the middle of writing my next post when I saw your question
They were designed by Mihailo Valtrović and made by Falize Frères for the coronation of king Petar I Karađorđević in 1904.
Falize Brothers used bronze taken from one of Karađorđe's cannons from the First Serbian Uprising.
The Crown0 -
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Thanks for sharing, interesting items.
Published in "Free Woods and Mountains".0 -
It is planned to restore the complex, project found here.
The pyramid will be moved from the schoolyard and some of the tombstones placed between it and the central monument.0 -
I've been searching the web for more information when I stumbled upon an interesting newspaper article.
According to the author some work was done in the late '80s during Helmut Kohl's visit to Yugoslavia. At that time someone had a brilliant idea, they took the tombstones of people buried on New Cemetery whose families didn't pay the fee for over a decade and reused them here. The article shows a photo of a tombstone from 1975, the whole text can be read here.0 -
During WW1 my great-grandfather was captured and he spent the rest of the war in German POW camp. I remember my grandfather talking about this photo when I was a kid. He told me it was taken prior to his release and that the other person on the image is the owner of the land on which he had worked. Two of them became quite good friends and before leaving he was given a silver pocket watch, we can see its chain on the photo. Sadly it was later taken from him during WW2 by a German soldier during house search.
Anyway there's an inscription on the back side:
Kammerad
Milivoj und Franz Böderer
Traunried
Deutschland
One more name appears: Johan Böderer
The thing that I'd like to know is in which camp could he have been placed if he worked on the estate in Traunried?
I've checked the list of enlisted men's camps and it seems to me that the closest one was in Lechfeld. Could this be the place?0 -
Criteria was the percentage of physical disability, Golden Wound Medal for 61% or more (KIA included) and Silver Wound Medal for less. The number of wounds was indicated by the number of stripes on the ribbon. If one suffered more than 3 wounds oak branches were added on the ribbon.
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One more photo from Mila Piletić's book.
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Yugoslav First Tank Brigade Medal
in Southern European & Balkan States
Posted · Edited by paja
As an illustration of what I wrote above I'll use information from the exhibition catalog found on Historical Archive of Belgrade website.
Konstantin Popović was awarded with the Order of People's Liberation in 1945, he received order with number 297.
Dragoslav Marković was awarded in 1953, number of his order is 239 and Leposava Perović awarded at the same time as him received order number 357...