Hungary Meritorious Service Medal

[Stogieman]

Well after reviewing most in here, I am still unsure if this is a "Military Merit Medal" or a "Meritorious Service Medal, Pre-1957". Can someone help me with that?

In reviewing many threads I did catch Charles' comment regarding pre-57 center enamel fields being a significantly darker blue. But this one doesn't look quite as dark. Has it been altered from post '57 back to pre '57?

Thanks, Rick

[hunyadi]

Hi Rick - as time progresses - more things are learned - I have several examples now with the sky blue (egshell blue?) colored enameled center - the porblem also arose from the Large Hungarian Medals Book, where it shows the dark enamel form and the first set of these that I ran across had the story about the pre 1957 items being the darker blue while the post are almost always the egshell blue - though I have one example of the 1957 form with the darker enamel - confused yet - me too! Anyhow dont discredit these right off hand - though it is easy to convert a post 1957 form. The onlt thing that disturbs me about this example is the darker enameled center of the crest - In all of my examples the enamel in the center of the crest is the same as the center field - can we see the reverse and the rivets?

[Zsolt]

Rick, the colours not in harmony together always...

Edited April 1, 2010 by Zsolt

[Ulsterman]

my later version-from Farkas I think :whistle: