Gerd Becker

Hello Steen, you are right, that was a typo in my translation. As the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps was part of the Cavalry-Mechanized Group Pliyev at this time, its definately Pliev. Is Pliev(instead of Pliyev) the more modern translation? regards, Gerd

Thanks, Andreas. You know, how much i wanted a combat-ORB. Finally!!!

Don is right. Material is wrong, very crude appearance. Not good. Any chance to return it?

Nice bar, Rick.

No, unfortunately not. I can scan the handwritten citation for you, if your withdrawal is too bad. I will try to get the Service Record from Karelin, but if Paul had no luck, i guess, i won?t have much more.

Absolutely, Dolf

I think, they are okay. I haven?t seen one of these fakes in the flesh so far, but Alexei and the Mondvor website do mention them. He said, they are crude in appearence and the mintmark is badly made.

Dolf, we don?t have to play this game here on gmic too. You can say, its CollectRussia Gerd

The one, OoV shows from the Mondvor website is a fake! There are fakes around of this Medal. Look for crude mintmarks and crude overall appearence.

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Today arrived the citation to this order to Comrade Karelin, i found it most interesting: 1. Last Name, Name, and Patrionymic: Karelin, Ivan Trofimovich 2. Rank: Guards Senior Lieutenant 3. Duty Position: Commander, 3rd Squadron, 34th Guards Cossack Kuban Cavalry Regiment 4. Birthdate: 1908 5. Nationality: Russian 6. Party Membership: candidate member since 1943 7. In the Red Army: 1930-1940 and since 1941 8. Participation in combat: Bashtanka on 10.3.44 and Novo Petrovka on 13.3.44 9. Wounds or Contusions: wounded three times 10. Inducted by: Georgievsky Regional Military Commissariat 11. Awards: Red Star for combat at Perekop 12. Home of Record: Stavropol krai, Gershevsky region, Stanitsa Lysogorekaya Short description of Combat Feat or Accomplishments: "On (missing) 1944, in combat for the regional center of the Nikolaev oblast-Bashtanka, where the regiment in conjunction with other units (missing), comrade Karelin?s squadron was sent to the outskirts of the village where they occupied a defensive position. After a certain time the enemy went on the attack. Despite superior enemy forces, all their attempts to penetrate into the village where repelled by the squadron. The enemy lost 120 dead sodiers and officers, (missing) machineguns and three vehicles, thus retreated. On 13.3.44 in the vilage of Novo Petrovka while repelling an enemy counterattack, Comrade Karelin?s squadron employed a captured artillery piece, killing as many as 50 Hitlerites. On 16.3.44, Comrade Karelin?s squadron arrived at a crossing site on the Ingul River and in the course of a day repelled four enemy counterattacks, thus denying the enemy the opportunity to cross the river and killing as many as 40 Hitlerites in the process. Signed Commander 34th Guards Cossack Kuban Cavalry Regiment, Guards Major Geras(?) Endorsed Commander 9th Guards Cossack Kuban Red Banner Cavalry Division, Guards General Major Tutarinov on 23. March 1944 Endorsed Commander 4th Guards Cossack Cavalry Corps, Guards General Lieutnant Plieb on 25. March 1944 Awarded the Order of the Red Banner by order 025/N of the 3rd Ukrainian Front dated 9.4.44" The final title of the 9th Guards Cavalry Division was "9th Guards Kuban Cossack Cavalry Slonim Luminets Baranovichi twice Order of the Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky " Looks, like these guys have seen a lot of action.

VERY nice, Andreas I hope to get results on one of my glory?s as well hopefully. Gerd

oh, and the Neck Decoration on the last photo is an Order of Osmania.

Nice photos, Robert. The Neck Decoration is the Finnish Cross of Liberty, probably a 1st class?! I am sure, Rick R. will like it and he will know the class. Gerd

I have no idea about the "politically incorrect" awards, her father or husband may have gotten, but the woman could be Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill for her chairmanship of the Red Cross Fund to Russia? Am i close?

What a beautiful piece Congrats to this rare example

VERY nice, Ed Order, case, document with photo, what more could you ask for?

Kevin, better stay away from this seller. He is selling a lot of rare orders and Medals, but most of it is as fake as it can be. There is something fishy with this group, as he gives no guarantee as he does with some of his common pieces, which are real. He had some strange groups lately. I would not buy a Victory over Germany from this seller

Sam, when someone got a second ORB, it was not mandatory to get an ORB with a number-shield. I have seen a lot of groups with several ORB?s which were simple first award examples, sometimes mixed with multiple award versions. Here is my new baby. ORB Nr. 114.934 with a tiny "7" manufacturer mark on the reverse, a lovely piece in nice condition. Research is ordered of course Thanks to Eric for letting me have this one! Hope, you like it:

Beautiful cards I will have to keep my eyes open for some of these.

My Mom loved her R 4 She still mentions it from time to time. I had a R 5 as my first car, bright yellow with red mirrors and other details. Was a funny car, rusted like hell, but was a fun car. Unfortunately the axis broke in a curve as it was rusted through The 2CV under the best 10 cars??? I guess, the jury never really drove one. There was a story around, that if you get this car to turn over in a curve, you?ll get a new one from Citroen, don?t know if that was true, but though... Gerd

I can count on one hand, how many i have seen of these in the last couple of years. Very nice David and Mark

Hi Bryan, i can only recommend you to use this database in the future: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7861 These are serialnumbers, which are personally observed by forum members and were proved by award cards or other documentation. I can?t guarantee the same for the database, you got from me some time ago, as that one wasn?t completely made by myself. Gerd

Not small at all, Bryan I love your screwback ORB and the suspension is a nice one too. Nice number on the screwback After our new database: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7861 its sometimes btween these two: 38,417 = 26/10/42 41,120 = 30/4/43 Research in progress?

and the most interesting reverse of this order: