slava1stclass

To all:

Currently available at a well known NYC-area dealer. The asking price for this Category 2 (missing official military commissariat stamp on photo) Full Cavalier set is $28,000.00.

FWIW, asking prices for Full Cavalier sets have doubled over the past two years.

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slava1stclass

To all:

Tsedenbal Yumzhagiyn (17.09.1916 ? 21.04.1991),

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Also wearing the star of the Order of the British Empire.

Who is it?

Rick,

Aviation Colonel General V.A. Sudets (promoted to rank as such in March 1944). He would later be promoted to Marshal of Aviation in March 1955.

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he was a Guards Senior Sergeant (3 stripes on shoulder straps)

Bill,

One correction. A Senior Sergeant's rank insignia was a wider single stripe on the epaulet. Three narrow stripes denotes a Sergeant.

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slava1stclass

While it won't quite fit on the scanner, another certificate.

Ed,

Looking at the pencil notation at the top right corner of his award certificate, his name is: Kterin, Ilya Yudovich. The transliteration to English was a bit off.

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slava1stclass

To all:

This snazzy-attired Tank Troops Major "v Otstavkye" would like to join the club.

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slava1stclass

A close up.

To all:

His combat credentials are laudatory.

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slava1stclass

To all:

Currently available on the well-known auction site. Looks like a heretofore unknown variant to me.

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slava1stclass

To all:

While not a Soviet, an ally nonetheless. A very nice photograph of Polish General of the Army S. G. Poplawski shown wearing the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross.

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slava1stclass

To all:

A nice grouping of high-level orders to include a couple of Mongolian I believe.

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slava1stclass

Somebody on eCrap some months back had whole PILES of torn off centers apparently being sold as scrap silver. They were shown here, but can't find them since nothing searchable.

Rick,

Here you go: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24058&hl=

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slava1stclass

To all:

A very nice double award to a Guards Major General - the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal.

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Thanks Marc. Has anyone ever seen a blue stripe before?

To all:

Here is proof. Look at the very bottom of his wound bar stack.

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slava1stclass

What's the data on back of that one?

Rick,

Unfortunately, no date.

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slava1stclass

I hate this thread....too much torture!.... I'll never forget the day I passed on Ushakov medal (serial number ONE) for $700.00 .... (at a time when Ushakbv medals were going for about $320.00 a piece...) ...

Dan,

I know the gent who now owns it.

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slava1stclass

To all:

Another high wound count warrior.

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slava1stclass

To all:

"This site has been suspended."

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slava1stclass

Slava,

There are quite a few other Soviet orders that fit that bill, yet we don't keep throwing figures around when one (or several) of them are on offer

Marc

Marc,

Valid point. As you know, however, my focus area has always been the Order of Glory therefore my specific interest in tracking its related developments.

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slava1stclass

What is the point of constantly monitoring price changes, then?

Lapa,

To indicate how quickly these orders have become unattainable for most.

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slava1stclass

To all:

This gentleman took a lickin' and kept on tickin'.

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slava1stclass

To all:

As a basis for comparison:

- Price for a Full Cavalier/Knight set in January 1998 - $3,500.00

- Price for a Full Cavalier/Knight set in October 2007 - $21,000.00

- Price for a single Order of Glory 1st Class in June 2000 - $1,570.00

- Price for a single Order of Glory 1st Class in July 2008 - $17,500.00

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slava1stclass

In case anyone wants to drool more (by now I've filled at least two swimming pools), check out this site:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.collectrussia.com

It has most of Collect Russia archived, so you can see both all the amazing things of the past (oh, the good old days...) and the steep uphill climb of prices. This was back when an Order of Nakhimov was $2,000, 67 times less expensive than it is today.

To all:

To frame it in another way:

- Price for a Full Cavalier/Knight set in January 1998 - $3,500.00

- Price for a Full Cavalier/Knight set in October 2007 - $21,000.00

- Price for a single Order of Glory 1st Class in June 2000 - $1,570.00

- Price for a single Order of Glory 1st Class in July 2008 - $17,500.00

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slava1stclass

To all:

I apologize for the quality of the image. The amazing thing, however, is that you have seven Full Cavaliers/Knights of the Order of Glory from one unit. Their unit - the 172nd Guards Rifle Regiment.

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slava1stclass

... does anyone recognize him?

To all:

Former Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.

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slava1stclass