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    W NIB 08 -- Mongolian Racing

    This is an amazing badge, and I suspect it will not scan well. The image of the horse and rider is custom-carved from a dark green stone (jadeite of some sort?) and is highly three-dimensional. A tiny work of wearable art!

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    I'll share a couple of documents from the "rare as checkens' teeth" category. Documents of a badge NO ONE has ever SEEN, except from a small, broken piece in one of the old collections in Ulanbaatar.

    W01, Badge "Ready for Labor and Defence", an obvious copy of its Soviet counterpart. (Almost too long to fit on the scanner and testing the upper limits of forum image size restrictions.)

    From what I read as year 22 = 1932. Beyond that, it is on the list for translation.

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    OK, maybe I just confuse easily, or maybe it is because it has to do with sports (which I have never quite understood), but I am finding some of these sports badges hard to sort out.

    I have found what I think are (at least) three series of the track and field medals (W27a-W29).

    These "feel" to be the oldest. Large (39 mm) with a mirror reverse. The runner is running to the (politically incorrect?) right. In gold (red "ribbon"), silver (blue "ribbon"), and bronze (green "ribbon").

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    A second version, smaller medals (27 mm), with the runner running left. Same "ribbon logic" as before. To make this more complex, I've seen these with both screwbacks and pinbacks.

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