Yugoslavia - Order of the Partisan Star (all 3rd Class, Mon-Dvor)

[Wat05]

Greetings everyone! I am currently looking at 6 different Orders of the Partisan Star. They are all the early Soviet Monetniy Dvor Variants, with the correct style engraving, and nut. I would like to post them here before I think of purchasing any of them. These are the photos that have been provided by the seller. Please leave your opinion on them.

 

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Thank you for any help! 

[Eric Gaumann]

Good to see some Yugo interest here again!

Have you looked through our extensive coverage here? See: 

There also look like they may fall into the "shinny" category as well.

 

[Wat05]

Thanks for the link! Really interesting to see other people’s orders. It is certainly one of the most gorgeous! 

[eatmeat]

All good peaces.

With order of Partisan star you have to know that Moscow mint created cca. 20.000 orders of the partisan star 3rd class, but only 10.300 were awarded form 1944-1973. All unawarded orders lay in the storages until they were found and put on the market.

So if the order is very shiny it usually means that it was not awarded. Also you can find them still in the original packages paper bags or waxed paper. At the award ceremony paper was thrown away and only the order was given.

Only way to be 100% shure that an order was awarded is to have an awarding document with matching number on it, but this documents are rare.

[Wat05]

Very great to learn this! And a very useful tip to find the awarded orders. Thank you!

[Egorka]

11 hours ago, eatmeat said:

All good peaces.

With order of Partisan star you have to know that Moscow mint created cca. 20.000 orders of the partisan star 3rd class, but only 10.300 were awarded form 1944-1973. All unawarded orders lay in the storages until they were found and put on the market.

So if the order is very shiny it usually means that it was not awarded. Also you can find them still in the original packages paper bags or waxed paper. At the award ceremony paper was thrown away and only the order was given.

Only way to be 100% shure that an order was awarded is to have an awarding document with matching number on it, but this documents are rare.

Hello, 

Thank you for interesting details regarding awarding process. 

Last time I asked (a few years ago), I was told the archives holding the information on awardee names and award numbers were lost (fire?), so these partisan stars are not researchable... only if it comes with a personal document, as you mentioned. 

Is this correct?

[eatmeat]

2 hours ago, Egorka said:

Hello, 

Thank you for interesting details regarding awarding process. 

Last time I asked (a few years ago), I was told the archives holding the information on awardee names and award numbers were lost (fire?), so these partisan stars are not researchable... only if it comes with a personal document, as you mentioned. 

Is this correct?

Yes unfortunally you are correct. One version is it was a fire one version is it was destroyed... one wersion was that archive of IKOM factory contained a lot of this information but it was all destroyed whan the facroty closed...

But all stories lead to one thing, award are not reserchable.

 

Also I dont know it the archive contained any usefull info as i was told it only contained "person XY was awarded order XX III. class" but on serial numbers etc.

[Wat05]

This is a terrible shame, seemingly fires always destroying such valuable resources, archives, document storage places. Even the UK saw a similar fate for all the WWI citations for the Military Medal. It would have been amazing to research these Yugoslav awards like how we can research Soviet awards.