Bulgaria, Kingdom Order of St Alexander

[Jackie Chan]

Hello, friends. I bought an unusual sample of the order of St. Alexander.
As you can see, it carries a double sword under the crown, but the common version does not have a ribbon under the crown, but this one does. It may be on the original basis that this sword is added for decoration. I wonder if you have seen similar examples?
thank you

[Graf]

On 12/11/2024 at 03:19, Jackie Chan said:

Hello, friends. I bought an unusual sample of the order of St. Alexander.
As you can see, it carries a double sword under the crown, but the common version does not have a ribbon under the crown, but this one does. It may be on the original basis that this sword is added for decoration. I wonder if you have seen similar examples?
thank you

 

That is a very nice 5th Class of the Order with Crown with pendalia and swords above the cross

That Model appeared  late in the King Boris III period 1918 -1943,  and during the Regency period 1943-1946 ( after the death of the King Boris III)

From this model are known  only crosses from 5th to 3rd Classes This model is rarer then the one with crown without pendalia

 Some authors state that this model did exist only in the Regency period During the Republican Period the Crown was replaced with a Wreath

 

Note; The box on the first picture is from the Republican period, however the Commander Cross is from the periods discussed above

 

Edited November 17 by Graf

[Graf]

Republican Model

Edited November 15 by Graf

[Jackie Chan]

On 2024/11/15 at PM12点06分, Graf said:

这是非常漂亮的五级勋章，上面有带饰带的皇冠和十字架上方的剑

该模型出现于鲍里斯三世时期（1918 年至 1943 年）末期，以及摄政时期（1943 年至 1946 年，鲍里斯三世去世后）

从这个模型中只知道从 5 级到 3 级的交叉，这个模型比没有吊坠的皇冠模型更罕见

 一些作者指出，这种模型只存在于摄政时期，在共和时期，皇冠被花环取代

 

注意：第一张图片上的盒子来自共和时期，但指挥官十字勋章来自上述时期

 

Oh, thank you. I found other pictures through your description. Thank you very much.

On 2024/11/15 at PM5点09分, Graf said:

共和模式

Thank you. It's very beautiful.

[steveBobby]

Greeting ！

This pattern of order I believe appeared during World War II between 1943 and 1945 as a temporary version due to a shortage of certain parts.I'll include photos of two actual wearers below to back up this claim.

Yours

Steve

[Graf]

2 hours ago, steveBobby said:

Greeting ！

This pattern of order I believe appeared during World War II between 1943 and 1945 as a temporary version due to a shortage of certain parts.I'll include photos of two actual wearers below to back up this claim.

Yours

Steve

Hi Steve thank you for the picures

It is a good point , worth exploring it further

[Graf]

7 hours ago, Graf said:

Hi Steve thank you for the pictures

It is a good point , worth exploring it further

BTW  The first photo is very interesting  The General is wearing both Royal ,more likely, the Regency/Republican Orders and Communist ones The uniform looks like 1945-1950 pattern (like the one bellow). During this transitional period many Decorations were awarded using left overs and  some to had a hybrid patterns

Edited November 22 by Graf

[Jackie Chan]

8 hours ago, steveBobby said:

您好！

我相信这种秩序图案出现在 1943 年至 1945 年第二次世界大战期间，由于某些部件的短缺而作为临时版本出现。我将在下面附上两位实际佩戴者的照片来支持这一说法。

你的

史蒂夫

Very good information

[Graf]

I just discovered that this model existed  not only for 5th to 3rd Class, however also for 2nd Class

That is a very interesting fact According to the existing literature this model or more correctly variation was known only from 5th to 3rd Class but no author mentioned 2nd Class

This shows that the existing literature is not complete and new fact will be discovered, and hopefully included in the next books

According to Denkov this variation did exist only in the regency period and was designed to be different from the King Boris III Emission However he is the only one who suggested this

 

 

 

Cheers

Graf