Soviet Order of the Badge of Honor

[Paul R]

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[Paul R]

Here is my final example... a flat back version.

[Paul R]

Here is my final example... a flat back version.

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The number is difficult to make out... it is 12,3414

[Riley1965]

Paul You have a very nice BoH there!! I like the flat-back!!!

Doc

Edited April 26, 2006 by Riley1965

[Ed_Haynes]

If I have varieties that "fill the gaps", I'll add more tomorrow. The flatbacks are especially nice., though. Have several.

[Paul R]

Thanks Riley! I dont know much about them... I think that Igor told me that these were initially made to be screwbacks, then when the rules changed they were made into suspensions... I don't really remember though.

Ed,

I hope to see more of your variations!

[Guest Rick Research]

A most peculiar Orders Book, for TWO Badges of Honor awarded only a year apart in the 1966-67 tidal wave of awards:

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what is peculiar is NOT that he got TWO of these so closely spaced together

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but that Zhotei Ivanovich Malitschev (not quite sure of spelling of scribbled/stamped over last name) HAS his photo, stamped by the Presidium of the USSR just like pre- and early-WW2 Orders Books, at all!

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Unfortunately I do not have either of these-- so somewhere "out there" are two loose and NOW unattributable drop-dead-boring OBHs.

[Guest Darrell]

Thanks Riley! I dont know much about them... I think that Igor told me that these were initially made to be screwbacks, then when the rules changed they were made into suspensions... I don't really remember though.

Yep quite a few soviet awards were screwback (in fact most) prior to June 19, 1943 when regulations stated a change to the 5 sided suspension.

Interesting to note the ones that did NOT change to five sided suspensions were:

a. Gold Star (HSU)

b. Gold Sickle and Hammer (HSL)

which received redesigned rectangular suspensions ....

[Paul R]

Rick,

I wonder what he could have done to have been awarded this order twice within as many years? Was this awarded as a long service medal as well?

[Paul R]

Now for the million dollar quesion...

Does anyone have a 1988-1991 example?

Paul

[Ed_Haynes]

Now for the million dollar quesion...

Does anyone have a 1988-1991 example?

Paul

Not quite a million, but getting close . . . .

[Paul R]

I another missed opportunity over a decade ago. Why pay 200 dollars when I could get a "normal one" for 20?!? I wished that I knew then what I do now!!!

[Gerd Becker]

Here is my contribution, a late Type 4, awarded 1980, Nr. 1.212.055

[Guest Alanirvine]

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My contribution. T4V1, SN 299,852. I think that this is awarded to a women.

Alanirvine

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Another set, awarded to a women.

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Another. I think that the photos add a lot of interest.

Alanirvine

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Another. T2V4 SN 12,258.

Hey Rusty where are you on these? I know you have a ton of these.

Alan

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Another. T2V5. SN 18,975.

Alanirvine

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Order of Honor. SN 1,522,392

I think that I got this one from Eugene a few years back.

Alanirvine

[Riley1965]

This is just GREAT !!! I love seeing your collections. I just realised that I don't have any award books with pics of the recipient.

Doc

[Guest Alanirvine]

Michael.

When you could get these at a reasonable price, I would look for the medal with the booklet and would focus on any that had a photo included.

Alan

[Paul R]

When did the value on Soviet medals/orders jump to what they are today? I remember amassing my collection in the early 90s. I went back and checked the value in 2000 with little change to what things were almost a decade earlier.

[Riley1965]

Thanks Alan!!! I will look for those. I appreciate the advise!!!

Doc

[Guest Alanirvine]

A couple of years ago, and most certainly within the last year there has been a huge increase in prices. Almost daily!

Alan

[Ed_Haynes]

Part of the answer -- at least so everyone says -- is the entry into the market of a fair number of rich Russian "collectors" (= "investors") with very, very, very deep pockets, the source of whose wealth does not bear close examination. They are, or so it is said, sucking up much high-end and even not-so-high-end Soviet material. The awards are flowing back to the Motherland.