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You are right Owain,  normal simple envolope is not sufficient for such a heavy book. But I wanted to show the size and the number of post stamps.

Jan

Hello,

I have finally received the book. Unfortunately I can not read Arabic but most probaly there  is not too much informations inside. Quality of pictures is poor, but I'm glad I have it, because there are several medals included that I  never seen elsewhere.

I do not write this post here to tell you that I have also bought the book, but to show you the envelope in which it came.

Regards

Jan

Hello Daniel,

the corect name is Order of Labor( no red). Your piece is from period of 1961 - 1989. Totaly 8 870 pieces were awarded. Before 1961 when the design was altered (ČSSR instead of ČSR) 1 531 pices were awarded. It is a question, whether orders with old symbols were used  after 1961 or not. After the fall of communist régime some 1 600 unawarded pieces remained in the Presidential office and were sold in a public auction. If you give me the number of order(I am not able to read it from your picture) I will give you the name of receipent. This order is common and sells at some USD 70,-. More details you can find here.

http://www.vyznamenani.net/?page_id=31

Regards

Jan

Hello Paul,

the Order of February 25, 1948 has been awarded once in 1949 on the occasion of the first anniversary of the communist takeover , mostly to members of the police and high party officials. Only very rarely it was awarded later. The order was managed by the Interior Ministry. After the fall of the comunist regime  in 1990,  one local dealer managed  to obtain unawarded specimens, blank diplomas and a list of awarded persons.I kept the list in my hands but I failed to buy it. To my surprise the list contained all details, ie. date, name, merits etc. but not the class of the order. So nobody knows how many stars of 1st class was awarded. The dealer was selling them for low prices. The first class at USD 100, -, what was more than the average monthly salary here, the bronze medal at USD 3,50 and a silver at USD 7, -. I have bought five stars and ten medals of each.

However, the stars of the first class are rare, they are sold in auctions at USD 1 000,-. The bigest local dealer, Aurea Numismatika, is offering the star at USD 1 150,- , see

http://www.numismatika.info/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=4503&category_id=36&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=81

Unfortunately I am not able to give you more details.

Regards

Jan

A nice dreem .

Thanks to much Jeff.

Hello,

can anybody give some details?

Thanks

Hello everybody, I have many years the following nice badge. It seems it should be Danish, maybe not military. Can somebody tell me more informations? Thanks.

Regards

Jan

Very interesting information, thanks. I will try to get more details in a military archiv.

Medal for Service to Homeland (Medaile Za službu vlasti) was established by Government Resolution No. 6/1955 dated 8th February 1955. No fakes exist .

Medal for Merit of Homeland Defense(Medaile Za zásluhy o obranu vlasti) was established by Government Resolution No. 6/1955 dated 8th February 1955. No fakes exist .

Order of Red Star(Řád rudé hvězdy) was established by Government Resolution No. 6/1955 dated 8th February 1951. No fakes exist .

Order of Red Banner(Řád rudé zástavy) was established by Government Resolution No. 30/1951 dated 3rd April 1951. No fakes exist .

Commemorative Medal for 20th anniversary of liberation of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic(Pamětní medaile k 20. výročí osvobození Československé socialistické republiky) was established by statutory measure of the National Assembly No. 112/1964 dated 17th June 1941. It is made from bronze. No fakes exist .

Czechoslovak War Cross 1939(Československý válečný kříž 1939) was established by Government(exile) Resolution No. 4/1941 dated 20th December 1941. It is made from bronze. No fakes exist .

Commemorative Medal for 20th anniversary of Slovak National Uprising(Pamětní medaile k 20. výročí Slovenského národního povstání) was established by Government Resolution No. 36/1959 dated 26th June 1959. No fakes exist .

Commemorative Medal of Dukla(Dukelská pamětní medaile) was established by Government Resolution No. 36/1959 dated 26th June 1959. No fakes exist .

Badge of Czechoslovak Partisan(Odznak československého partyzána) was established by Government Resolution No. 621/1946 dated 9th August 1946. No fakes exist .

Commemorative Medal of Second National Resistance(Pamětní odznak druhého národního odboje) was established by Government Resolution dated 14th May 19486. No fakes exist .

Sokolovo Commemorative Medal(Sokolovská pamětní medaile) was established by Government Resolution dated 5th March 1948 on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Battle of Sokolovo. No fakes exist .

The Bronze Medal.

The Silver Medal.

Czechoslovak Order of Freedom(Československý řád Za svobodu) was established by Government Resolution No. 105/1946 dated 2nd April 1946 in 3 classes: Golden Star, Silver Medal and Bronze Medal. No fakes exist . Here is the Gold Star:

Bronze Medal.

The order was awarded to foreigners too. For example Order 2nd class received 130 Frenchmen, 225 Russians, 84 Bulgarians, 31 Americans, 16 Poles, 3 Jugoslavs and 5 Romanians.