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    Hero of the People / Hero of Socialist Labor


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    Hi Gor - welcome to the Forum!

    That is a great example of a very, very rare decoration. When the title was first established on October 25, 1954, it had a statute fineness of 18 karat gold and a weight of 21.5 grams. In 1970, the fineness of the decoration was set at 20 karats and weight at 18.5 grams. At some point, a gilt bronze version was also issued, though I've not yet been able to figure out when or why the bronze versions began to be manufactured.

    Cheers,

    Eric

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    :ninja: As background music in this thread I hear the instrumentals from the Jaws movie... because there's something coming closer and closer but we can't see it just yet... oh the suspense! :ninja:

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    Dimensions

    - ribbon: width of 20.00mm and height (excl ring connector) of appr 14.40mm

    - gold star itself has thickness of appr 3.35mm at center and 2.20 at star tip

    - gold star has max widt of 17.4 (star tip to star tip)

    - total = 17.8gr, star only 13.25gr

    Dimensions thus not being fully in alignment with what is currently in Eric's book.

    Unfortunately unnumbered/unmarked... although I'll request from source the "story" behind the star and - if possible - will share here.

    This is probably the first time that a scan of a real star (i.e. not from book) is made available on internet!

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    Something interesting here - can you give me the dimensions of the box itself?

    :speechless1: I'll have a look this evening. Few days before this and also some other items will make their way to a more secure environment further away from my scanner

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    Documented / boxed Hero of Socilist Labor arrived in the mail today :jumping:

    Will post some scans over the weekend. Hopefully then also can get somebody to translate the document which appears to have a section which indicates what the achievement justifying the award (from 1989) specifically was:

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