Gerd Becker

I agree, you have a great collection of obscure uniforms, Paul. Some i have never seen before. I have learned a lot through your threads lately Gerd

Thats a lovely group, zook. Which documents do you have to this group? Is the badge documented too? Gerd Fixed!

Really love the OPW C?mon Doc, lets see the citations

Takc, i think, Stoo meant, that you should post your Miners helmet here too additional to the Miners buckle. Interesting topic, btw. Lets see some more... Gerd

Rick, i bought the first one three years ago from Alexei Merezkho and this one was found in a colletion in New Jersey, about a month ago. I guess, they were split up by a dealer or collector some time ago. Although i am sure, Alexei did not break up this group. OoV, if you have posted your researched pieces here on the GMIC, then you data is very likely already in Andrews and others database, so there are people out there, who keep an eye out for your missing orders too. Thanks again everyone Gerd

Sad, but true. But if you think of the hard times many people had to go through in the USSR, one can understand, that these were just a piece of valuable metal for them. And the dental technicians were happy, that they could buy gold cheaper than on other markets. Unfortunately not everyone treasures these things like we collectors do and i don?t even want to start to think about how many beautiful history-loaden german and international awards are lying on the garbage dumps in Germany.

I absolutely agree with you, Andrew. You are doing a great job and its fantastic, that you were able to recognize it as the missing long-service ORB to my screwback ORB. And yes, that makes sense, if this one was out there somewhere, there is a chance, that there are his Red Stars or his Lenin out there too. That would be awesome and is probably too much luck to ask for, if one of those would be found.

Thanks, Bryan. Indeed, i also wish, it would happen more often. I don?t have so many Red Banners, 8 only, i have switched a bit to OPW?s in the last year and this is the first new ORB since quite some while...

Hi bjow, see here: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1468...p;hl=Iraq+Medal Hope, this helps... Gerd

Absolutely, Jim Me too, whereever it happens. The soviet-screwback.com website had three results and Andrew was lucky four times to reunite pieces. Long live the world wide (collector) web

Thanks Gilbert I know, that at least Andrew has a large database and tries to reunite broken groups and as far as i know, he was successful four times so far. Yes, of course i am very happy to reunite these two pieces and i wonder, when and where these may have been seperated. In a dealers inventar or directly in the family? I know at least for sure, that the dealer, i bought the screwback from, did not intentionally broke up a group. The later ORB popped up in a collection in the USA and luckily the owner was willing to trade it for another ORB. But all this wouldn?t have been possible if Andrew did not keep track of the orders on the market and in collections worldwide Gerd

Like Bernhard!!! I am impressed. Great job!

Sure Chris its done, btw and i left the easy bits for you

I can?t believe, nobody commented to this nice group yet. However, the note in post 3 is impossible to read, i am sorry. I can hardly read S?tterlin, but S?tterlin in bad handwriting is too much for me. All i can make out is: ...des bayer. Reiterkorps(Generalleutnant v Fasbender)... Glt. v. Hoehn ist j?ngstens zum General... Thats all, sorry, mate. You need a real pro in S?tterlin.

I have already tried, when you posted that, Chris. But i?ll give it another go now. Won?t be complete though...

That looks like you have painted it yourself on the picture. Thats quite a bad job, even for that time period. The EK 1 looks bizarre.

Christian, as Belaruski answered the main-question, i would suggest, it is his turn. Gerd

Meinem guten Freund .... aus Dankbarkeit f?r die Arbeit die er uns Veteranen zugesteht und Verst?ndigung zwischen Holland und Deutschland schafft. In herzlicher Verbundenheit und den besten W?nschen ..... Thats a nice compliment

award card

Yes, Ed, thats it Take a look at this thread: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2405 Here are the two pieces reunited. I allways wanted a multiple Red Banner group, but that i would get it piece by piece, who would have known? My deepest thanks to Andrew (MONDVOR) for finding this piece for me and managing the trade, also to Eugene and Alex Filer for their assistence

Du alter Spielverderber Also missing are two more Red Stars and a Lenin. You never know... Andreas, can you see the differences to the piece on the MONDVOR website?

Gentlemen, this arrived today in my mailbox and i wanted to share it with you, as this ORB isn?t just another example, but a very special one. Its obviously a Type 3 Variation 4 after the PMD-classification and a Type 3 Variation 5 on the MONDVOR-website. The appearance of this piece is a little different to other T3 V5 from the MONDVOR website, but thats not the reason, why it is special. So, what is the reason, why this one is special? Andreas, you are excluded from this quiz Here it is:

The nickname was "Dicker Bello" , hard to translate, its an expression in itself, but it suggests, that the germans were quite impressed of the size of the KV-1, when they saw them first. All i know about the other part of the question is that the the armour was reduced for a higher speed of the KV-1, thats all... Gerd

I think, thats a beautiful designed award Is that real gold and is that a seperate gold leaf in the center? The red background is that enamel? Looks niiiiice!!! Gerd

Well, his prices for soviet stuff are a little over the top, but he offered some named american medals for quite decent prices. I don?t know about the prices for american awards, but a named Bronze Star for 26 Dollar is not too bad, i guess. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I am going to try this guy, when the opportunity arises. Gerd