02-06-2007, 11:54 AM
A few questions regarding Eisenhower's Order of Victory.
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands related to the writer Henny Meijer that Eisenhower had told him that he had had the award valued by a jeweller in Washington, who concluded that the stones were copies. Sounds like Cold War jingoism to me, but I've never seen a real Order of Victory. It ought to be pretty simple for someone who has seen it to settle this matter--I doubt that the sort of copy diamonds available in 1945 would be very convincing.
Something else that's been bugging me. There is another thread about Montgomery's Order of Victory, which has a stickpin reverse. Eisenhower's is clearly a screwback. The curator of the museum where Monty's award is housed claims that the stickpin appears orginal, and suggests that the award may have been constucted as such due to Monty's presumed unfamiliarity with Soviet uniform attachments. But, why give Eisenhower a screwback?
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands related to the writer Henny Meijer that Eisenhower had told him that he had had the award valued by a jeweller in Washington, who concluded that the stones were copies. Sounds like Cold War jingoism to me, but I've never seen a real Order of Victory. It ought to be pretty simple for someone who has seen it to settle this matter--I doubt that the sort of copy diamonds available in 1945 would be very convincing.
Something else that's been bugging me. There is another thread about Montgomery's Order of Victory, which has a stickpin reverse. Eisenhower's is clearly a screwback. The curator of the museum where Monty's award is housed claims that the stickpin appears orginal, and suggests that the award may have been constucted as such due to Monty's presumed unfamiliarity with Soviet uniform attachments. But, why give Eisenhower a screwback?
