Duncan Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 Hello, can someone please identify which Belgian medal this may have contained? Thank you, Duncan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 (edited) For Silver medal of the Order of Leopold II Edited March 26, 2023 by Graf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 13 hours ago, Graf said: For Silver medal of the Order of Leopold II Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 There are three Classes Medals of this Order Look a the topic Order of Leopold II in this Section 1st Class Gold 2nd Class Silver 3rd Class Bronze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VC89 Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Shouldn't be there a "L II" (monogram of King Leopold II) on the box? I have some simular ones with only the "2nd class" (in French, Dutch or both) on it and in most of them have the civil "Labour Decoration, 2nd Class" and the "Civil Decoration, 2nd class" for civil guard/fire brigade inside. Now Belgium is not known for its strictness when it comes to medals and probably most 2nd class medals could have been sold/awarded in a box like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 57 minutes ago, VC89 said: Now Belgium is not known for its strictness when it comes to medals and probably most 2nd class medals could have been sold/awarded in a box like this. I was wondering if that might be the case. Here's two I recently got; just 1st and 2nd Class in French in the boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VC89 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) It seems that for some reason they like to use red for 1st class and blue for 2nd class. Some other examples: And as I said before, Belgium is not very strict about these things. I don't even think the color of the box is set as a "rule" but rather something they just did. Edited March 28, 2023 by VC89 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 Fantastic collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VC89 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 On 27/03/2023 at 19:11, Duncan said: I was wondering if that might be the case. Here's two I recently got; just 1st and 2nd Class in French in the boxes. Didn't really noticed it before but just in case you don't know it yet: they are not the same medals ... well they are the same medals (jewels) but bacause of the ribbon it is a different one. The first one is the "Civic Medal 1st class for Long Service in the Administration" the second one is the "Civic Medal 2nd class for Acts of Bravery, Devotion and Philantrophy". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 (edited) 31 minutes ago, VC89 said: Didn't really noticed it before but just in case you don't know it yet: they are not the same medals ... well they are the same medals (jewels) but bacause of the ribbon it is a different one. The first one is the "Civic Medal 1st class for Long Service in the Administration" the second one is the "Civic Medal 2nd class for Acts of Bravery, Devotion and Philantrophy". Hi, thanks for the information. Edited April 1, 2023 by Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 On 28/03/2023 at 03:12, VC89 said: Shouldn't be there a "L II" (monogram of King Leopold II) on the box? I have some simular ones with only the "2nd class" (in French, Dutch or both) on it and in most of them have the civil "Labour Decoration, 2nd Class" and the "Civil Decoration, 2nd class" for civil guard/fire brigade inside. Now Belgium is not known for its strictness when it comes to medals and probably most 2nd class medals could have been sold/awarded in a box like this. It should be, however for some reasons I have seen the LII medals with French text only only in such boxes I also have seen cases with Crown and LII underneath as well a blue case with letters M.O.L.II I also assume that could be a lot of mix and match of medals and boxes or as you stated 2nd Classes medals could have been sold/awarded in a box like this (2me CLASSE) Obviously when comes to the lower level Awards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 I also suspect because The Order of Leopold II is awarded for civil contributions the boxes for the medals were awarded in boxes similar to the Civic medals What ever the reason it is fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farkas Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Hi Gents, I was on eBay last night and spotted all these for 15 quid 🤷♂️ so I grabbed them. The blue one looks similar to the ones above. Are any of the others interesting Gents? Any thoughts welcome Gents, thanks tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Nice boxes and for a good price. most of them are for different medals The red one with the text is for the Gold medal of the Order of the Crown I used to keep some of the Orders that came without a box, especially the Knight Classes Enjoy them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 (edited) Here is a Set of decorations and old photos on eBay Belgium for 40 Euro You can see the use of boxes as i said in the previous listing Edited April 6, 2023 by Graf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 ,,,,and Gold medal in a box (not part of the Set) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VC89 Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Belgium and it's medals ... You can have one medal in many different versions and found in even more different boxes (not including the combinations done later by sellers, collectors, ...) But I guess that is one of the reasons why we like to collect them 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farkas Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 11 hours ago, Graf said: Nice boxes and for a good price. most of them are for different medals The red one with the text is for the Gold medal of the Order of the Crown I used to keep some of the Orders that came without a box, especially the Knight Classes Enjoy them ah thanks, I’d been trawling Google looking for that one, I’d thought perhaps ‘medal of courage’… nowhere near! cheers both 🍻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graf Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Welcome Cheers Graf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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