08-10-2005, 06:00 PM
Mark Wrote:This question is for me one of the biggest mistery's of collecting yugoslavian awards...
I have seen a lot of these soviet pieces around last few years and they all had the serial numbers bellow 10 000 range, most of them right around 9 000... And as we know, only about 10 000 were awarded. Probably all soviet pieces were awarded, and when they were gone, the IKOM started to produce their version. So later the IKOM star was awarded but also not in large numbers, the number stopped at about 23 000 if I'm not mistaken.
So why the hell are these stars seen everywhere... Are there really so few collectors that collect this or what?
And all of these 10 000 stars can't be on the market... Most of them are probably still in the original owner's hands, or were at some point lost by the original owner. So we are talking about 5 000 or les pieces in the collector's market...
Why is it so much easier and much cheaper to get a partisan star, which was awarded only 10 000×, than an EK2 1939, which was awarded about 5 000 000 times and there was even a big quantity of leftovers at the end of the war...
This doesn't makes any sense to me at all...
Mark,
The perception may be that they are everywhere, but surely no one could have seen more than a few hundred in their whole collecting career. Also, Collectors may tend to resell theirs, so as a consequence the same batch of stars may come around all the time.
In quality, my star doesn't seem of much different quality than other lower yugo awards. My star must be quite a late issue, or possibly unissued stock, as it looks quite new. Serial number 23,668.
