Hello,
can anyone help identify the medals on this portrait? It shows Gen. Stefan Stefanescu in 1929.



Many thanks,
Pipo

This post has been edited by Pipo on September 21, 2009 07:49 am

At the neck: Crown of Romania Commander with swords 1916


The bar contains drom left to right:

Star of Romania Officer 1877
Star of Romania Knight if I'm not mistaken Military in peace time
Crown of Romania Knight 1881
French Legion of Honor
Russian Order(I don't know)
WW1 comemorative medal
25 years of Service in the army
2 nd Balkan Medal 1913
ww1 comemorative medal
( here are 2 ww1 medals I think there are both models 1916-1918, 1916-1919)
Manhood and Loyalty 1913 model with the 1913 bar
Jubilee medal of King Carol I 1906

The big star on his chest is the Serbian Order of Saint Sava Grand Cross

This post has been edited by Claudiu1988 on September 21, 2009 11:33 am

Imperial Russian order on the ribbon bar is the Saint Vladimir with swords 3rd class with ribbon. He also wears a Saint Anne without swords 4th class directly below the medal bar.

Hi everybody,
I'm not starting a new topic, since I ask to help me for a similar identification!
Please let me know if the soldier in the picture below is Romanian, what troop and what medals does he has.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
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Regards,

Romanian officer - he is wearing the Order of the crown - officer and knight.

Cheers,

Al

He is wearing the Crown of Romania: Officer and Knight model 1916 both medals were won in ww1.

Many thanks for your prompt answers!
Do you know what troops/army can be?
Regards!

Is that a watch at his hand?

I learned from Montana that is a pocket watch with a device that makes it a wrist watch.

Hi everybody,
indeed he has a watch at his hand!
There were two variants through which was made the transit from pocket watches to wrist watches.
One of them is the presented one in which were manufactured several leather bracelet that allowed the pocket watch fitting.
An example of such a bracelet in the offer of Ceasornicaria Coltei you can see hereafter:
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(picture taken at the Musée International d'Horlogerie (MIH) - La Chaux-de-Fonds)

The other variant was as lady pocket watches that has two connected tabs on which a strap can be fit.
These watches are called transitional watches.
Although before 1900 there existed several examples of bracelet watches rather as esthetically lady accessories, the wristwatches become a man device during the WW1.
Below there is a picture of a wristwatches among the first used as standard in equipping US military (Signal Corps) at WW1 times.
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Zenith and H. Moser "Signal Corps" watches from personal collection

Regards,
montana
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