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Kind of scary to watch these prices climb and climb.... when will this market implode? I stepped in & out of Mongolian just as I watched the prices explode. It was very discouraging as a collector with limited resources. I thought I had found something "doable".... the illusion didn't last very long.
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Bulgaria Bulgarian Red Banner Order
Stogieman replied to seb16trs's topic in Central & Eastern European States
Here's another numbered one, 43762. It would be great if we could get some sort of time line going. Unfortunately, this one has no booklet either. -
Now, after staring at the picture for a bit... it occurs to me that one of the very last things I bought before I gave up my full-time dealings in militaria was this set of two ribbon bars offered by a dealer in Hamburg. He didn't have anything else, he only had the 2 bars and they're actually still in his shipping envelope...... Now I don't forget much so after looking at the original image the little bell goes "ding" and I pull up the scan of the 2 ribbon bars and sure enough.... same damn pair of bars except now the swords have been turned back the right way.....
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Today, I was contacted by SPM..... he has now purchased the bar and it has had a document ADDED and the bits and bobs REMOVED...... Someone, somewhere, has screwed with a group. Now, when I buy off eBay, I always ask the seller if there's anything else and those of you who know me well can attest to my obsessiveness in completing, not breaking groups. So... off I go to comb the archives to see if I actually had such a group and I can confirm when I owned it... no document and as shown.
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Now, without digging through boxes in my attic, I can assure you at some point in time, I sold the entire group, as shown, to someone else. If I dug, I could actually tell you the date of the sale and who bought it, provided it occurred in the last seven years....... I cannot stress enough, it left here as shown.
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Romania A Lonely Romanian Award
Stogieman replied to Stogieman's topic in Central & Eastern European States
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Long ago and far away... this came here briefly. Long enough that no-one had a clue what it was! Sorry for the old, small images. But it was the first Communist piece I ever purchased.
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Bulgaria Bulgarian Red Banner Order
Stogieman replied to seb16trs's topic in Central & Eastern European States
OK, some crawling the web tells us the following interesting facts: On Saturday April 28, 1945; at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy; Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged. But I have been unable to glean anything off the web that relates directly to Bulgaria for April 28, 1945 or 1955 ??? -
Bulgaria Bulgarian Red Banner Order
Stogieman replied to seb16trs's topic in Central & Eastern European States
I didn't even catch that... you're correct. Three all on 4/28/55. What happened that would have resulted in multiple awards... I wonder, I wonder! If the numbers really are sequential we're talking 3000+ awards on one day?!