Unidentified Thai decoration

[Hugh]

OK, maybe wrong was the wrong word: misstaken is better! It clears up that what I thought to be a decoration actually was an umbrella

[Hugh]

OK, apologies to both of you. My "smart mouth" ran away again, but I was really curious to learn more, and to see if I could work some of it out with my Malay dictionary.

[Herr General]

Hi Hugh and Erik,

Yesterday I got in contact with a collector of KNIL photo's. I showed him this photo and he replied that it must be an medal from Sultan Soesoehoenan, Pakoe Boewono X.

[Hugh]

Hi Hugh and Erik,

Yesterday I got in contact with a collector of KNIL photo's. I showed him this photo and he replied that it must be an medal from Sultan Soesoehoenan, Pakoe Boewono X.

[Hugh]

Son of a Gun, my hunch paid off! That's the Sultan of Solo (Suryakarta)! The line continues to reign but not rule. Can't remember for sure, but I think the current Sultan is Hamankubono XIII. (Not at all sure about the numeral) His retainers all wear caps and sarongs of a unique royal pattern of batik.

[Herr General]

The Bronbeek Museum:

The medal you are looking for is the medal in honour of 40th government jubilee from Pakoe Boewono X, the soesoehoenan of Soerakarta.

The medal is made bij the Firm ?Koninklijke Begeer in Voorschoten? in 1932.

[Ulsterman]

Cool!

[ErikMuller]

Nice

Thanks for the information. This means looking through the known online papers to see if we can find some royal decree by with they were authorised to wear these medals!

Cheer,s

Erik

[kapten_windu]

3rd medal: a medal from Kasunanan Palace (Javanese letter on it)

4th medal: maybe medal from Annam in Indochina