JohanH Posted August 30, 2022 Share Posted August 30, 2022 (edited) Hello! I recently bought some documents belonging to a Norwegian-Swedish business man named Even Christian Gjestvang. Among the documents are this one from Bulgaria. Is it a document for a Civil merit order? 4th class? Edited August 30, 2022 by JohanH Spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickstrenk Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Yes,it is.You determined it correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanH Posted August 31, 2022 Author Share Posted August 31, 2022 Thanks Nick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new world Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) Mostly correct, except for his occupation, which is listed as "Writer in Stokholm" on the document. However, google points to several articles which list him as an industrialist: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even_Christian_Gjestvang https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Mobil/Artikel/13085 His business was printing machines and book printers, perhaps people in Bulgarian awards department got him confused with a writer. Edited September 1, 2022 by new world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanH Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 Even Gjestvang did many things in his life. He was mainly a business man in the paper industry but also imported cars as early as 1903! He was also general consul of Persia in Sweden which gave him the order of the Lion and the Sun. If the document states him as a writer it must be that he got the order for a book about Bulgaria that he apparently wrote in 1896. If the document say Sven it must be a spelling error. His name was Even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new world Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) Found an answer to why he's listed as a writer: "G also published a small book about Bulgaria and a statistical compilation about Sweden's industries in the 1890s, as well as appearing in foreign magazines, mainly with a series of articles about Scandinavian printers in The British printer." That's why he received this Bulgarian award - for writing a book about their country. 9 minutes ago, JohanH said: If the document say Sven it must be a spelling error. His name was Even. Sven is a common Scandinavian name, someone in awards office made this easy mistake. Great document to a famous person! Congrats to new owner! Edited September 1, 2022 by new world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanH Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) 23 minutes ago, new world said: Found an answer to why he's listed as a writer: "G also published a small book about Bulgaria and a statistical compilation about Sweden's industries in the 1890s, as well as appearing in foreign magazines, mainly with a series of articles about Scandinavian printers in The British printer." That's why he received this Bulgarian award - for writing a book about their country. Sven is a common Scandinavian name, someone in awards office made this easy mistake. Great document to a famous person! Congrats to new owner! Yes, that's exactly what I wrote. He made a book about Bulgaria. Sven is a Swedish name, the Norwegian form is Svein. Gjestvang was born in Norway and Even is a fairly common name in there. I don't know much about cyrillic, but I have always thought that S looked like a C in cyrillic. So Sven would be something like Свен? It is a very nice group of documents to a quite important person. Unfortunately there are three documents missing which the seller didn't have. They only had seven of the documents and as far as I know Gjestvang received ten medals/orders. Edited September 1, 2022 by JohanH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Hej JohanH, I sa this group as well for sale, but have refrained from it. Here is the reason why: https://digitaltmuseum.no/011012761388/portrett-av-even-christian-gjestvang-1853-1941-kise-mellom-nes-hedmark Kind regards Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanH Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 6 minutes ago, dedehansen said: Hej JohanH, I sa this group as well for sale, but have refrained from it. Here is the reason why: https://digitaltmuseum.no/011012761388/portrett-av-even-christian-gjestvang-1853-1941-kise-mellom-nes-hedmark Kind regards Andreas That is an great photo. Thanks for the link! I wish I could find that miniature-chain! Do you mean the part about reproductions in the museum archive? Or that you think the documents belong in the museum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dedehansen Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 I did not buy them, because too many documents were missing. Regards Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohanH Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 I see. I bought them mainly because of the document to the Norwegian gold medal "til belønning for fortjenstlig virksomhet". Only 48 medals were awarded of that type! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new world Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) About Bulgarian document - it's a scarce Prince Ferdinand period award document, with fancy paper seal. These are rarely seen for sale. Edited September 1, 2022 by new world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted September 3, 2022 Share Posted September 3, 2022 I support New World comments regarding the Document Here is a Document for the Grand Cross from the same period signed by Prince Ferdinand On 31/08/2022 at 15:06, nickstrenk said: Yes,it is.You determined it correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickstrenk Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 5 hours ago, Graf said: I support New World comments regarding the Document Here is a Document for the Grand Cross from the same period signed by Prince Ferdinand Great!An excellent document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted September 4, 2022 Share Posted September 4, 2022 Thanks This is the awarded person and this is the Grand Cross -1st Class The Officer Class from this period should have the same design -with the domed crown -it is the first model On 31/08/2022 at 04:37, JohanH said: Hello! I recently bought some documents belonging to a Norwegian-Swedish business man named Even Christian Gjestvang. Among the documents are this one from Bulgaria. Is it a document for a Civil merit order? 4th class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 Document for 5th Class - Knight Class from the same period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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