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This order of Republic of Srpska was introduced in 1993. It has only one grade and it was awarded to collectives and individuals

for particular sacrifice and courage shown while taking care of the wounded and sick during combat. It can also be awarded

during peacetime for outstanding deeds.

This long named decoration was introduced in 1998. It had only one grade and it was awarded for commitment in carrying out duties in the fields of defense and security.

Ribbon looks the same as the ribbon for the Medal for military merit of the previous (communist) Yugoslavia, except it's pentagonal. And the box is quite nice,

looks expensive and it's pretty heavy. Medal came along with the awarding document signed by the president of FRY himself which was unfortunately thrown away

by the previous owner.

Unfortunately I never got the cross, to cut the long story short the seller tried to trick me.

I'm not even sure if he really had it because when I was asking for more pictures he

said he no longer had a working camera. That made me to believe that he found this

picture somewhere on net or maybe took a photo of a cross that did not belong to him.

So in the end beware of Hungarian "seller" from Subotica (city in northern Serbia) with a cross like this, he's a fraud!

Greetings Gentlemen,

I have just acquired these two Imperial Russia ribbon bars and I would be very grateful if you could share your opinions about them.

If I'm not mistaking ribbons are for:

- Order of St. Anne 2nd Class

- Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd Class

- Order of St. George 4th Class

- Order of St. Vladimir 4th Class

- Order of St. Anne 3rd Class

- Order of St. Stanislaus 3rd Class

There is a supporting metal piece inside both of them and I have checked them under UV light, they do not glow. I am satisfied with their overall

condition although signs of wear are pretty obvious. Considering that ribbon bars were never officially introduced in Imperial Russia and that I

haven't seen many of them before, I was wondering could these two have belonged to the same person? I think that they did but what confuses

me is the question why aren't all ribbons on a single bar (for example in two rows)? And even more important, if these two bars belonged to

the same person wouldn't it be logical to put St. George 4th Class in front of both St. Anne and St. Stanislaus 2nd Class beacause it's higher

in the order of precedence? Could it be that the primary criterion was dimension of the ribbons and then place of a particular decoration in the

order of precedence?

Regards,

Radmilo

Great collection Sajkaca

Catalogue is also really great, and considering number of pages and color pictures in it I would say very fair priced as well.

I got my copy just recently, so I think that even though it has been out of print for a long time it is still availible :)

PM M1910

PM M1910

PM M1910 cal. 7.62x54 mmR, Russian Empire.

Thompson M1A1 cal. 11.43x23 mm (.45 ACP), USA, FPRY.

M1949/57 cal. 7.62x25 mm Tokarev, FPRY.

UD M42 cal. 9 mm, USA, FPRY.

Sudayev PPS-43 cal. 7.62x25 mm Tokarev, USSR.

Sten Mk. II cal. 9 mm, Great Britain.

Shpagin PPSh-41 cal. 7.62x25 mm Tokarev, USSR.