order and medals booklets classification

[seb16trs]

I'm trying to establish a database about bulgarian docs... as the orders are not numbered, but a few early ones, I'd like to find a chronological cohesion by examinating awards booklets serial numbers.

First, I use a rough classification for the docs:

* type 1: large rolled diplomas which followthe royal era tradition, awarded between 1945 and 1950-1955?

*Type 2: small booklet, with only one page for the entry, followed immediately on the right page by the reglemenation pages; this type is nearly identical to the 1945 soviet orders booklet.

* Type 3: small booklet, but two pages for entries; the left one bears award name, the right one bears a table with ukaz number and date; color pages is orangish.

*Type 4: nearly identical, but pinkish pages and bears in background the 1971 coat-of-arms.

*Type 5: from 1986, a double entry page, with recipient and order names typed, we don't see booklet number on these two pages.

I believe serial numbers start from zero at each new type isued, while the Soviets used a same number scale for all their booklets (with help of alphabet letters they covered 50 years from 000000 to L-000000).

any comment, help or kind advice will be greatly appreciated

Edited April 29, 2008 by seb16trs

[christerd]

Great Idea !

Here you have some numbers to start with, maybe we can see a pattern if we get many enough?

Type II 022639 28 April 1955

054593 1957 (cant see date)

Type III 031064 18 Jan 1958

50803 29 Dec 1959

066892 29 Dec 1959

092548 21 May 1966

104468 15 Dec 1969

164657 16 April 1971

Type IV 000868 7 Oct 1971

005638 26 April 1982

055633 28 may 1975

034709 19 May 1978

081187 27 March 1981

You can clearly see some system in the numbers , a couple seem out of line but I suppose there always be a few that are left in storage by some reason and used "to late"

Hope this helps, if you want I see if I got more books , I think I have a couple more

All the best

Christer

[christerd]

I see that Bolgarin have a Red banner with type III orderbook awarded 29 Dec 1959 58801 with fit perfectly in the numbers that I have 50803 , 66892

I wonder how many awards was given out 29 Dec 1959?

Christer

[bolgarin]

To this moment nobody knows for sure how many Red Banner orders were given during the communist period in Bulgaria. On my opinion the quantiy is in about 20 000 pieces.

Edited May 6, 2008 by bolgarin

[christerd]

After a quick look on the net I found some more Order books nr, so her is a updated list

small but maybe we can see some pattern in the numbers

Type II

021283 28 April 1955

022639 28 April 1955

054593 10 June 1957

Type III

031064 18 Jan 1958

50803 29 Dec 1959

58801 29 Dec 1959

066892 29 Dec 1959

092548 21 May 1966

101569 27 June 1969

102248 23 May 1969

104468 15 Dec 1969

109585 21 jan 1966

110994 30 Nov 1968

164657 16 April 1971

Type IV

000868 7 Oct 1971

005638 26 April 1982

008797 27 June 1974

008861 20 Feb 1974

011515 6 Oct 1972

019087 7 Oct 1983

034709 19 May 1978

040570 23 May 1977

044034 27 April 1976

047205 28 Oct 1977

051719 27 April 1976

053792 24 Aug 1979

055633 28 may 1975

081018 15 June 1981

081187 27 March 1981

090233 8 Oct 1980

156108 30 June 1973

A-85 001537 12 Aug 1985

A-85 008226 31 March 1986

As you can see the earlier Order books follow quite well in time while the later ones is more mixed...

Well,I keep on collecting order books number and we will see what it looks like after a while.

Christer

Edited May 6, 2008 by christerd

[seb16trs]

wow! well, I'm late and I need some more time to gather all datas; many thanks to everyone who pmed me and added somme infos here; I'll post all datas here.

I hope this database will help us.

[bolgarin]

Very good work. Thank you. Im sure this information will help us in future.......