Gerd Becker

Its allways worth the invested money, Chris. Except maybe British and Commonwealth Medals, you don?t get this much info for any of the orders/medals of other states like Third Reich or French or Romanian or whatever... Its allways exiting to learn the story, whatever it is, at least for me... I know, you think similar.... Let us know, what the results were Paul, nice Glory and great research Gerd

Thanks for the kind words, Auke. I have to update the photo with the OPW?s, as i have a few more now. I am also completely addicted to soviet screwbacks, especially the OPW?s, both classes, even the 85 issue?s are nice in mint condition. Like you say, just beautiful. Thanks again! Gerd

Thanks, Christian. I might add, the Cavalier on the right has the Border-Guards Medal on his ribbonbar, so he had service in the BG and that may explain his Motherland 3rd class. To all: I agree with Ed and Wild Card best, Gerd

Paul, yes, it was possible to award the Red Eagle Order and if i remember correctly, also the Crown-Order on the Lifesaving-ribbon for a second award. Awesome bar and extremly rare.

Hi Humberto, i will keep my eyes open for a document for you. I am sure, with a little patience one of those will pop up somewhere. all the best, Gerd

It?s a Frackspange, Doc, they are mounted "backwards". It was worn beside the collar on a civilian Frack. Gerd

Paul, try this website and click on orders database: http://www.soviet-screwbacks.com/ There you can add your single orders and medals and also the one, you are looking for. They had two matches already. And there are also collectors our there, who add the data here to their databases and it can happen, that they see an order or medal, which belongs to a group or other single awards, posted on this forum or elsewhere on the internet. I know, because it just happened to me and i am in negotiations to reunite two orders. Cross your fingers everyone. Gerd

Humberto, you should check german ebay (www.ebay.de) for a SAM document. Here is the Militaria-Section to save you some time searching: http://sammeln.listings.ebay.de/Militaria_...ListingItemList You should be able to find one there. If you need help with the purchase, just send me a pm. all the best, Gerd

Nice one, Paul. Good Luck finding the missing OPW and Glory 3rd class. Believe me, thats not impossible

Well, i like it, but better pictures are needed. Maybe an unfinished 1st Variation?

Andrew, thanks a lot for posting the photos of your Grandfather. Extremly nice pictures. Do you have anything of his uniforms or the ribbonbar, he wears in the later photo? Take a look at this research, which Dave posted a while ago. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=102890 Thanks again Gerd

Very interesting. Thanks, Nack. I didn?t know, Border Guards did use these shoulderboards too. I only have the East German "Milit?rlexikon" for this kind of information, but its obviously incomplete. Gerd

Branch is Navy, Rank is Matros (Private). No idea, what the "ПВ" stands for... Its not connected to a Fleet, i think.

OOoohhh What a fantastic group, Ed The SB is a screwback?

Welcome, Leigh

Excellent! Congrats, Ed. Happy, it turned out legit Dave, thats an interesting style of Award Card! I have never seen that one before.

The optimal price range for an OOR is 15-20 Dollar, but only, when i want to buy one Kidding aside, Alexei sells the 4-rivet version for 310 Dollar, the 5-rivet version for 275 Dollar. I think, thats quite close to market value. Hope, this helps... all the best, Gerd

Dan you have a really nice collection now The lesson on the MMM, you got from me lately, was: "NEVER EVER leave any stuff laying around, when Kid?s are close" But who could have been mad about him, his intentions were good and he really did a good job polishing that Medal, i have to admit it. No worries, it will develop some patina again with the time... I miss my Homeland At least its in good hands Great stuff, mate Gerd

Andrew, would you mind posting the other photo of your Grandfather, you were talking about in the inititial post of this thread? I would love to see it. Thanks in advance Gerd

Auke its not unusual that in these documents is refered to with the old names of the Fronts. best, Gerd

Sorry, Christian, i totally missed your reply, but i am not surprised about the content Thanks for the compliments. I will post another downgraded (or upgraded?) Glory 3rd class in the next days. all the best, Gerd

Here you go, Ron: http://www.vectorsite.net/avil2.html And these are the ones, he was testflying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-29 best, Gerd

I couldn?t agree more with you both. Actually the story behind these awards is as exiting as the beautiful piece of artwork, its related to, sometimes even more than that.

Even if you would try, you couldn?t hide that Great work, Rick Nice dicoveries lately

What strikes me as odd is the total unusual construction for such a soviet screwback award (look Order of Nakhimov, Suvorov....). Gerd