paddywhack

balls! shame! i got this when dublin was being flooded with good stuff!i realy did think it was good!! pity! RIGHT now for the Sevastopol medal i gotta post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i JUST scanned em about 2 minutes!!and your dead right there!

and the back!

thats mad!! i was going to start my own thread on my Belgrade medal!so what do you guys think?

i LOVE the MC (of course the fact the A) one was won in my family and B) i own one has NOTHING to do with it!! )

but i do thing the design of it is so elegant!! :beer:

i had these for about 2 days before noor had them half inched off me!!!!!!! but he dangled some stuff in front of me i had to have!!!!(he would make a great politician or loan shark!!! )but there in a great home so no worries i guess!! :beer:

$9 for a red star!! cool!! but i was only starting out so i didnt know better!! :beer:

Visiting another friend - he showed me box of Nevsky orders, about 10 of them all @ $300 a pop.

I've got only one or two

ONLY two!!!!!!!!!!!im pretty impressed iv ONLY one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :beer:

i got in just at the end of the good times and a collector friend of mine also said buy as much russain orders as you can cos the price will rocket up! i bought a bit more then i "needed:" and used the funds from selling of some red stars patroic wars etc for other purchases!!still wish the good old times of 15 pound red stars was back with us!! oh well!!

theres only one left and its in south africa! now listen to this! in the Aberdeen proving grounds in the states they had at least one ww1 german tank and they scrapped it in the 40s!!!!!!! hos bad is THAT!!! :mad:

well i think you only have about 100k upload limit at first and if the pic on your pc is larger you cant upload it so just follow the directions i gave you there and reduce it down and you should get sorted! :beer:

I do think this was issued to a mybe a british person as i KNOW iv seen a red star mounted on a british group for artic convoyies!il have a look for the thread!plus the 'modifcations! Look very well done and the enamel looks damaged from wear!i reckon this will go for massive money in the end!

with regard your pics being to big to up load very simply right click once the pic is open click on edit,this brings you to paint, go to image select stretch and skew and then resize your image as you want!(make sure you save it under a different file name though!) hope that helps! :beer:

yeah i know but what im saying is that this sort of thing did happen! whether its converting one thing to another or vice versa!! :beer:

and a close up on the back! i think its PERFECTLY plasabul(?) for some vets to either make some orders to screw back OR to make them into the "new" style 5 sided suspension orders!(as in back when they 1st came out!)

and the front!!(cos i can!!)

heres my red banner

could be his other awards were all screw back and he was just neat and bored at the same time!! :beer:

iv red banner in the 90 xxx range that converted to screwback and then back to the correct way again!!!

well it aint me sadly!!! :beer:

no worries on th OoF!im kinda moving on my non combat orders so although i really did love it,it was abit out of place surrounded by red stars PWs and my nevsky and lenin!!! but i got a nice few ribbon bars of noor for it,so everyone got a great deal!!hope you enjoy it as much as i did! and was that doc on the history channel? if so id say it will be repeated no worries!! :beer:

oh and going by echos of war i reckon this was awarded near-ish the end of 43! (im sure some other very nice forum member will get that down to a region and a month!!! )

will the bubble burst on soviet prices? probably not! EVERY year i see thread after thread on how third reich prices are set to crash and as of yet they haven't! same for the soviet stuff HOWEVER the current economic climate could well see alot of people selling off there orders,finding they cant get the price they want and dropping the price!it might might not happen!as for the red star!at the current rate yeah that pretty good i think!over here in dublin expect to pay E150 for 7 digit one!!!!!

iv seen that before and good documentary! havent a clue about the russian fed awards though!!! :beer:

"During period of counterattack by German forces against the 150th Guard Rifle Regiment he skillfully arranged

to block any effort that would lead to the possibility of panic."

you just KNOW he was one of those officers standing shooting anyone who even thought about retreating as the Germans steamrolled over these troops!