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    Bulgarian Red Cross Medal


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    14 hours ago, Gordon Craig said:

    Gentlemen,

    Hilfskomitee translates as "Assistance Committee" making the complete wording on the car translate as "Austrian Assistance Committee for the Bulgarian Red Cross".  Therefore, this was a committee set up to do just that.  Assist the Bulgarian Red Cross.  I am not sure why this committee would be producing these Bulgarian badges unless it were to raise fund for the Bulgarian Red Cross since the card shows a sale price.  I don't doubt that this is a Bulgarian badge.

    Kingdom of Bulgaria: WW1 Badge of Merit of the 
    Bulgarian Red Cross.
    The badge, with the Crown of Tsar Ferdinand, 
    was awarded to Austrians, Bulgarians and 
    Germans, for meritorious services (or more 
    commonly, for offering significant amount of 
    money) to the Organization.

    Regards,

    Gordon

     

    Thank you for the clarification on this issue

     

    Regards

     

    Graf

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    23 hours ago, Gordon Craig said:

    Gentlemen,

    Hilfskomitee translates as "Assistance Committee" making the complete wording on the car translate as "Austrian Assistance Committee for the Bulgarian Red Cross".  Therefore, this was a committee set up to do just that.  Assist the Bulgarian Red Cross.  I am not sure why this committee would be producing these Bulgarian badges unless it were to raise fund for the Bulgarian Red Cross since the card shows a sale price.  I don't doubt that this is a Bulgarian badge.

    Kingdom of Bulgaria: WW1 Badge of Merit of the 
    Bulgarian Red Cross.
    The badge, with the Crown of Tsar Ferdinand, 
    was awarded to Austrians, Bulgarians and 
    Germans, for meritorious services (or more 
    commonly, for offering significant amount of 
    money) to the Organization.

    Regards,

    Gordon

     

    could it be that the Austrian Committee helped to procure the badges for Bulgarians and cardboard with name and price from manufacturer just lists the price the Bulgarian Red Cross was paying for these badges?

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    2 hours ago, new world said:

    Not sure you'd get the badge for donating such small amount.

     

    In 1915  1 US dollar = 6.50 Kr. 
    $1 in 1915 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $31.22 today.

    3 Kr would be worth about $15 in modern money.

     

     


     I agree - 3 coins x 5 gramm = 15 gramm silver 0.875 - $15. 
     

    may be for another donate - another badge ( with gold crown ?) 

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