Dolf Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Some Orders and Medals from my country.The three first Orders to the left of 1st row are from before the Republic (before 1910), the last Order (4th piece, 1st row) is from the Republic, probably from the 40's-50's.The War Cross (1st piece to the left of 2nd row) is from WWI (1917), the other Medals are more recent.Dolf
Bob Hunter Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Handsome awards, Dolf, any chance of close ups front and back?
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 Handsome awards, Dolf, any chance of close ups front and back?Bob,Yes, of course.I'm starting with a few pics of my favorite, the Military Order of the Tower and the Sword. Dolf
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 Portuguese War Cross, 1917 Type, obverse:Dolf
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 Military Merit Medal, front and back:Dolf
Bob Hunter Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Excellent workmanship! Is the Order of the Tower and Sword in silver or silver plate?
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 Excellent workmanship! Is the Order of the Tower and Sword in silver or silver plate?Bob,Good question! I'm not 100% sure but I believe it's in silver.Dolf
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 (edited) Bob,More later... Dolf Edited February 9, 2006 by Dolf
David Gregory Posted February 9, 2006 Posted February 9, 2006 Dolf,Those are very attractive awards.When does the Military Merit medal date from and are there any other versions of the Portuguese War Cross, i.e. not the 1917 type?Are there any Interallied Victory Medal variants or only one design?David
Dolf Posted February 9, 2006 Author Posted February 9, 2006 Dolf,Those are very attractive awards.When does the Military Merit medal date from and are there any other versions of the Portuguese War Cross, i.e. not the 1917 type?Are there any Interallied Victory Medal variants or only one design?DavidDavid,Unfortunately there are very little information about Portuguese awards available, so I must confess I know quite more about Soviet or Mongolian awards than those from my own country Anyway, about the Military Merit Medal: very hard to say from when it dates, as this one I have is exactly like the ones that are currently issued. So I can only guess that because of the worn ribbon this one already has a few decades. I believe this is a Medal that exists only after the Republic was established in 1910.War Cross: Yes, there are other types of this award. I believe this one is of the Type 1, issued at the end of WWI. I know there is at least a Type 2, and perhaps a Type 3 which would be the one currently issued.Interallied Victory Medal: yes, apparently there are different variations of this hard to find Medal. I couldn't get my hands on one yet, each time one shows up on eBay I'm allways outbidded My priority now would be a Military Order of Avis and a Order of Santiago of the Sword, then a Order of Christ. I have an old Order of Christ (2nd piece, 1st row on my Display) but this one is one of the types existant during the Monarchy. I'm looking for another more recent type, same type of those issued now.Then there are a couple of other Orders, such as the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (awarded last week to Bill Gates when he came for a few days business trip) and the Order of Liberty (not sure if this is the one awarded recently to Bono from the U2 and Bob Geldorf for their humanitarian causes) that by the way I don't even know how it looks as I was never able to see a picture or a draw of this one! Hope it helps.Best,Dolf
Eric Schena Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Hi Dolf;This is quite an impressive collection! I've always liked Portuguese awards - in fact, the decoration that got me into collecting them was a collar to the officer class of the Order of St. James of the Sword. I finally managed to buy that collar, plus a Grand Cross badge and star set, and a gold officer class of the Order of St. Benedict of Aviz. They are still among my favorite items in my collection even though i have moved over to Communist decorations.Cheers,Eric
Dolf Posted February 10, 2006 Author Posted February 10, 2006 Hi Dolf;This is quite an impressive collection! I've always liked Portuguese awards - in fact, the decoration that got me into collecting them was a collar to the officer class of the Order of St. James of the Sword. I finally managed to buy that collar, plus a Grand Cross badge and star set, and a gold officer class of the Order of St. Benedict of Aviz. They are still among my favorite items in my collection even though i have moved over to Communist decorations.Cheers,EricHi Eric,Thanks.I see you have two of those I still don't have, even thought I just want the Orders, not the grand collars or the breast Badges.I believe I've seen pics of your pieces on the W-A Forum, right?Cheers,Dolf
Mike Dwyer Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 Very nice collection, Dolf! I noticed you have the order of Villa Vicosa there too. The head of the royal house of Portugal, HRH Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza still awards that order. I have two friends here in the states who are knight commanders of Villa Vicosa.
Eric Schena Posted February 10, 2006 Posted February 10, 2006 I believe I've seen pics of your pieces on the W-A Forum, right?Yup! Those would be the same examples. If anyone wants to see them here, let me know and I'll post them up in a new thread or something.Cheers,Eric
Dolf Posted February 11, 2006 Author Posted February 11, 2006 Very nice collection, Dolf! I noticed you have the order of Villa Vicosa there too. The head of the royal house of Portugal, HRH Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza still awards that order. I have two friends here in the states who are knight commanders of Villa Vicosa.Hi Mike,Yes, the Royal Military Order of Our Lady of the Conception of Vila Vi?osa (wow! That's the entire long name of this Order ) is one of the three Dynastic Orders that still belong to the Portuguese Royal House to award. On the contrary of all the others, for which the Grand Master is the President of the Republic, the Grand Master of these three is indeed Dom Duarte, the Duke of Bragan?a. According to the info available on a site it seems that the two others, even thought I've never seen one for sale, are the Royal Order of St. Elisabeth (I've seen a picture of this one on that site) and the Royal Order of St. Michael's Wing (never seen a pic of this one, so don't even know how it looks like! Maybe it doesn't exist anymore).Cheers,Dolf
Dolf Posted February 11, 2006 Author Posted February 11, 2006 And here are a few pics of the Order of Our Lady of Vila Vi?osa, as this Order is usually called.Obverse:Dolf
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