Chris Boonzaier Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Ever seen one of these before !?!?!?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 (edited) Yes I have-very nice and quite rare-@ $100+ these days.Ethiopia sent a small but rugged contingent to Korea. the vets association is still active and I send them $100 every year. The campaign medals were made in Sweden and England and are of .825 silver and quite nice. Haille Selassie was a staunch proponent of the U.N. and peacekeeping. Ethiopian troops also served in the Congo and in the Siani. Had the Emperor not been murdered battalions undoubtedly would have been inthe Congo again, Uganda, Sierra Leone, East Timor and the Balkans as well.There are ribbon groups out there as well- very,very special. Edited January 22, 2008 by Ulsterman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Boonzaier Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 I saw one on French ebay for EUR125 and tossed the idea around, but in the end I figured it did not really fit in any collecting area I had... just simply "Neat" and nice to see.BestChris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
922F Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Vendors by the old Palace and elsewhere in Addis sometimes have medals, including these, for sale. Usually no ribbon a more but modest price. Airfare might however, tip the scale! Some UN issue Koreas there look to be cast copies.I could not locate Sevadjian's (an Ethiopian based manufacturer--his name is seen on "local-make" Star and Menelik II insignia) shop/office/factory but heard imperial awards were on offer there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFloyd Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I was under the impression that the Sevadjian family had immigrated to the US, so there may no longer be a company by that name in Ethiopia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul wood Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Ever seen one of these before !?!?!?!I lot of this stuff came out of Ethiopia in the late 1980's and 1990's and was sourced from a European gentleman who worked and lived out there (haven't deen him for about four years). I handled at least 10 UN Korea medals as well as quantities of the Order of the Trinity, King Solomon's Seal, Menelik II and the Star, in all cases no ribands but with UN Korea they are as easy to obtain as dog muck on the pavement. Whether other pople were doing similar things to my man I don't know but I know they were alsoturning up in one or two European auction houses. I don't know whther the supply has now dried up but certainly there are more of them on the market than you would suspect.Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garth Thompson Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 As a point of interest, here is the medal with two variations of the shoulder patch worn by the members of the Brigade. Both are japanese made.Garth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Nice!This ribbon bar was sold on eBay recently. It is upside down too.Alas, not to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh kitchen Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Oh dear, something else that I was previously unawrae of but now need to feed my magpie syndrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megan Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Ethiopean Commemorative Medal for the Korean War: - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulsterman Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 nice one Ms. M:Is that the Swedish version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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