private collection of some rare romanian militaria

Hello over there, i´ve just registered here - congratulations to this forum, this is a great board for people interested in romanian military history.

I have the chance to buy a nice collection of predominantly romanian uniforms and awards.

It would be nice to have some discussion about it here.

First and foremost I collect German militaria, but I think this is a nice opportunity to broaden my horizon.

Greets from Bavaria
Felix







This post has been edited by Hotzenplotz on January 19, 2010 07:49 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum.

WOW a very nice colection, a splendid one may I say. Can you put more pictures with the orders and medals, closer pictures also with the ribbon bars. Is the seller from Germany or he is here in Romania?.

This post has been edited by Claudiu1988 on January 19, 2010 08:33 pm

When I read "rare Romanian militaria" I instantly started thinking about soldiers uniforms from II and I WW, but the pictures totally disappointed me. Officer uniforms don't register as rare to me.

On topic now, for more details you need some close up photos, I’m sure that’s not a cheap collection so a very good examination is mandatory. Also the pictures are confusing as the mannequins are dressed differently from a picture to the other.

Great collection!
Could you please post some pictures of the flag?
And of course of the other stuff.



This post has been edited by boonicootza on January 19, 2010 09:55 pm

Unfortunately I just have the few picutes you see above for the moment.
Tomorrow afternoon I will visit the collector (it´s over here in Germany), and maybe we will manage to come to an agreement. Of course then you´ll get better pictures.

At a first sight the pieces look origin i think and the seller seems to be reliable.

The problem is that I can exactly identifiy only one uniform, the one on the far left (the non-romanian one: k.u.k. austro-hungarian Artillery-Officer). I already looked for professional literature about Romanian military pre 1939 but it is not that easy to find in Germany

Best regards and sorry for my bad English,
Felix

This post has been edited by Hotzenplotz on January 19, 2010 10:56 pm

The flag is not genuine, but a reproduction. In fact, I don't know if "1872 model" flags (fabricated until 1897) ever had the monogram of Ferdinand Ist in the corners, which would make it an erroneous flag.

Good evening everybody,

I promised you pictures, so here they are.

First of all I bought a nice lot of an officer served in the k.u.k army and afterwards in the romanian armed forces.

Especially the identification tag makes the lot to something "particular" and personal, i think. I bought it yesterday.

So here we go:











This post has been edited by Hotzenplotz on January 21, 2010 06:20 pm

and finally..

Nice pics!

This oficer fellow is from Brad, Hunedoara county, a small town very close to the area were I spent my childhood.

As he was in AH army and I see that he fought in Dobrogea and Bucuresti, he left AH army and joined romanian army before Romania entered ww1, most probably.

Can anybody to tell me what decorations he has?

This post has been edited by 21 inf on January 22, 2010 05:55 am

Here are some facts of the officer above, Sabin Banciu.

I got it only in romanian, maybe somebody could translate?

The medals are numered in the photo above.

1. Crown of Romania model 1881 Commander
2. Crown of Romania model 1916 Officer
3. Star of Romania model 1916 Officer
4. Crown of Romania model 1916 Knight (the ribbon must be with out a rozet)
5. WW1 Comemorative medal with 3 claps
6. WW1 Belgium Victory medal



This post has been edited by Claudiu1988 on January 22, 2010 03:45 pm

What was the price for the entire lot??

On November 8, 1918 he was elected, Brad, Banciu Sabin, chief of the National Guard. He instructed the Vice-President Dr. Radu, to demand the removal of the Hungarian flag on City institutions and to replace the Romanian national flag to fly.