ORDER OF TUDOR VLADIMIRESCU

Three Romanian Socialist Military Merit Awards - Order of Military Merit, 1st Class (three-piece construction, bronze gilt and enamels, 39 mm x 39.5 mm); Order of Military Merit, 2nd Class (three-piece construction, silvered bronze and enamels, 39 mm x 39.5 mm); and Military Merit Medal, 1st Class (bronze gilt with red enamels, 31 mm). Original ribbons, each is mounted to its own five-sided brass suspension with pinback, extremely fine.

Multi-piece construction, bronze gilt with red and white enamels, with ten raised couplings, each with a white synthetic stone, unmarked, with "RSR" (Romania Socialist Republic, 1965-1989) designation, 58.7 mm x 59.2 mm, horizontal pinback, two tiny chips evident in the white enamels, light contact on the reverse, near extremely fine. Footnote: The Order of Medical Merit was instituted in 1969 in three grades, to be awarded to senior-ranking members of the medical profession.

Romania (People's Republic): Bronze gilt with eighty-four authentic diamonds (twenty-four in the centrepiece ring, six on each of the ten rays), with a red, yellow, green, orange, light blue and dark blue enamelled centrepiece insignia, measuring 53 mm x 55 mm, vertical pinback, extremely fine.

Medal in die struck gilded feinzink (late War issue, c.1943), 34mm, original ribbon, some loss of gilding otherwise unworn, scarce.