Gerd Becker

Second is Prague. I hope, i find a ribbonbar for this one too soon.

I have had a few single medals and documents laying around and though, i put the fitting together in simple Picture-frames. These are not groups or belong together (except Prague), but i like it better this way than stored away in a drawer. Here is the first. Warsaw. I received the Warsaw-Medal and the Ribbonbar today.

Ahhh, yes, of course, its the 25 years Victory badge. Thanks a million, Doc. The weird placement was it, what puzzled me, but as its worn on the right breast, it makes sense Thanks again and very nice ribbonbar, you got there. If it needs a new home, just let me know... Paul, thanks, glad, you like them. best, Gerd

Beatiful piece

Very nice collection, USAF

and the reverse of the bar above. More to come next month...

And the 3rd and last for today is a nice sewn-on 11 place bar with: 1. Order of the Red Star 2. Military Merit Medal 3. Lenin Centenary Medal 4. Victory over Germany 5. 10 years Victory 6. Liberation of Warsaw 7. 30 years Soviet army and navy 8. 40 years Armed Forces 9. 50 years Armed Forces 10. 20 years Irreproachable Service 11. 15 years Irreproachable Service Thanks for looking! Gerd

Second is an 11 place bar with: 1. Order of the Red Star 2. Medal for Valiant Labor 3. Defense of Leningrad 4. Defense of Caucasus 5. Victory over Germany 6. 20 years Victory 7. 30 years Armed Forces 8. 50 years Armed Forces 9. 50 years Soviet Militia 10.Medal for 15 years Irreproachable Service 11.Medal for 10 years Irreproachable Service

Hello Gentlemen, beside some other stuff i got these Ribbonbars today and as these are the very first ones in my collection, i thought, i post them here. Also i would like to ask for your help to identify the last ribbon on the first ribbonbar. Thanks in advance The first one is a 10 place bar with 1. OPW 2nd class 2. Defense of Caucasus 3. Victory over Germany 4. 20 years victory 5. 30 years victory 6. 40 years victory 7. Veteran of Labor 8. 50 years Armed Forces 9. 60 years Armed Forces 10.?

Thanks, guys. Glad, you like it. I am in negotiations about a Marinehelferin badge and hope, i can add it to my mothers display soon.

Great collection, Eduardo. I especially like the "Liberty Bonds" postcard and the "Motorm?rser" card.

Absolutely, looks very nice. You have an awesome collection, Barry. It may be small, but you have some teriffic documents, wow. Gerd

Looks great! I really can?t await to get my copy. Hurry up, Dave

I can?t say anything about the jacket, but the ribbon bar is definately a put-together. I would stay away from it. Gerd

What a great gun, Dan. If it just could talk...

Holy Cow! Awesome piece!!!

Hi Joe, i am sorry to say that, but i am quite certain, the stickpin is a fake. First there is no detail and it looks like it was cast. Also, i have never seen them marked with a silver stamp. I?ll take a picture of one of my stickpins and post it later and you will see, what i mean. Again, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I hope, you didn?t pay too much. all the best, Gerd

Hohenzollern Members eagle?

Awesome I guess, thats a very early marking, right? Sure, must be.

Doc, its not reinventing the wheel to enhance the existing systems and to further research the facts about an order more than a book was able to do, which was written, when internet wasn?t that common, when the communication between the collectors was on a much smaller level and next to nothing was known about Soviet orders and medals to the western world. But thousands of new facts came to light in the last 9 years and dozens of new variations and subvariations were found since then. The Red Star is one of my favourite orders and i try to get a few variations together, so i want to know as much as possible about this order and the Soviet Screwback website is much more detailed than the McDaniel/Schmitt book and so IMHO the best resource to gather info about a particular variation. This is absolutely not meant as a disrespect to the McDaniel/Schmitt book, which is a fantastic resource and i have learned most of my basic knowledge from this book. But of course they were not able to cover everything or have seen every variation, when they wrote this book. This hobby is evolving and one has to keep up with the available info. A very good and detailed online-resource are the Mondvor-website (hopefully in english too soon) www.mondvor.narod.ru and for screwback-orders the website mentioned above. best regards, Gerd

Very nice, Andreas. And a bargain at that

I agree, Ed. There is so much more and some of the fields, like Labor-Awards for example or some of the most beautiful badges, ever awarded. I wish, i had unlimited funds and i know, soviet badges would be one of the sidelines of my collection. ONE of them only, of course

Okay okay, i won?t bore you anymore with more "Dead Hitlerites", if thats such a pain for you guys

Doc, its true, the website takes a different approach to the classification of the Red Stars, but they were right, everytime i checked one of my screwback orders there. Its more an addition to the PMD-system than a replacement. PMD just didn?t go this deep into the topic, but classified the ORS more generally. Could it be, there is a little mistake with one of the pictures in your article? Fig. 10 shows an earlier type than described in the text, if i am not mistaken. But all in all a well done article, congrats. Here is a good picture of a "curved up mint mark". Both words are sligtly curved upwards.

Doc, i disagree. All the Red Stars of these variations, i have seen, the ones, i own and both Stars, Bryan shows, had a slightly curved up mint mark, not straight. Take a look on the soviet screwbacks website for further info: http://www.soviet-screwbacks.com/index.html best, Gerd