Gerd Becker

Nice , these earlier ones seem to be much better in quality. Were the early ones soviet made?

It seemed to me, that the Horse and Soldier on yours has a little more wear, whereas other areas on mine have more wear than yours. Allways difficult to say from pictures.

Yes, yours is on the left and mine is on the right.

No, Dolf, i disagree, yours is in so bad condition, you should throw it in the trash can... but in my trash can

Gerd

Dolf, i have noticed some differences though. Look for example at the areas, i have marked. Mine has less wear but there are bigger differences than what could have been caused by wear.

Here is a comparison:

Though, a nice piece. I guess, i will never even handle one, but i am okay with that. Imagine, how many nice groups you could buy for 33k

The "blank" reverse on that one has a ghost image of the letters from the center obverse as if this was stamped twice-- and turned over!

It will be interesting to see if this was a "Bad Monday" production batch at this serial number range or one that is literally unique!

Yes, there are indeed ghost letter. I don?t know, if this in an uncommon thing, but all the one, i have checked, don?t have it.

Gerd

Here is a Type 38.4

I believe these were sold by "Sovietsy Collactables" back in the day.

The number most likely is a 1 million...

Rusty.

Thanks for clearing that up, Rusty.

Gerd

Nice Card, Greg

You can still buy this "Liebig Fleischextrakt"(Liebig meat extract) here in Germany.

Hello Gentlemen,

i found this on ebay. Please take a look on the box and the certificate? What is this? A collectors item? Anyone has an idea? The Order itself looks okay to me, as far as i can tell from this photos.

Gerd

One of the dealers -- not The Usual One -- has an impressive group on offer now

http://www.russian-medals.net/vasyagin.htm

with the Mongolian 50 MPR (A46), 50 MPA (A47), and #) KG (A 45) medals all on Soviet pentagonal suspensions, but teh the generic red we-don't-know-or-care-what-the-right-ribbon-is ribbon. It's be hidden away anyway. Also 2 RCBs.

If you have a spare $49K. Ha ha ha ha . . . .

Yes, i have seen that one. Very impressive and very expensive

I saw one once, on a beautiful silk ribbon in the exact colors of the enamel suspension "ribbon," to a Soviet officer who had had all of his Medals award booklets BOUND together inside a custom folder with his Orders Book.

At the time, I thought his awards were too boring and the price too high... but if anybody comes across that group, it is unique from the "all in one" binding and the Mongolian Victory mounted Soviet style on his medal bar.

Interesting. That would have been a nice group, like it seems. In the Herfurth-Cataloge there is the 25 years MPR-Medal pictured with a soviet suspension and there are additionally the animal-symbols enameled, so there seem to be a special version for foreigners from both of these medals?!

No . . . there seem to be "thicks" and "thins" of Medal "We Won" (A 41) and there are "thicks" and "thins" of the Medal "25th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (A 42). If you add an implicit Type 3 on goofy pentagonal suspension for the Northern Friends, that gives us three varieties of each.

Ahhh, thanks, gentlemen, i never heard about that before. I knew about the "thick" and "thin" 25 years MPR, but not about "thick" and "thin" "We Won" Medals. Do you have ever seen this on pentagonal suspension? I have seen the 25years MPR Medal on this kind of suspension, but never the "We Won" Medal.

Thanks again

Very nice and unusual Woundbadge, Gordon.

I hope, Jens F. will post his examples here as well again He has a great collection of unusual Woundbadges.

Gerd

Dolf, our medals come from the same batch, 24 numbers difference, obviously the same engraver:

Dolf, thanks for the reply. And Thanks to Ed for the started threads about the Medals.

Should we distinguish between these variations? If so, then i?ll post mine in the threads, Ed started.

Gerd

This is obviously a "NIB" as Battushig only shows one of this Medals where the enameled Ribbon-suspender has three rivets on the reverse. There is a Honorary Labor Medal listed in this style, but no Medal of Combat exactly like this.

I guess, its a common variation, but its not listed in the Battushig-book.

Thick or thin how? Where?

Actually, the second one is 45,997...

oh sure, and now I won't be able to sleep tonight!

Rick, it seems, like Ed may have mixed this Medal up with the "25 years of MPR"-Medal!?

Indeed a slippery slope. This is actually a really nice Medal and i can provide one of the missing digits:

Dave, thanks for the closeups

Here's the Third Class with the group... Too bad that some folks think that this would be detrimental to the value of the group...

What? The value of the glory 3rd just makes a few percent of the value of the whole group.

I agree completely with Soviet, thats a lovely set and i would be proud to own it, no doubt.

Gerd

I just love the feedbacks:

"This miracle! Now I am rich!"

"The clever people. Large money!"

All of his 5 buyers only have 1 feedback

Fantastic group, warlord Especially the ribbonbar

Wonderful group and great move from the grandson to give you the chance to obtain the complete group. Could you post some closeups of the military photos in post #5?

Thanks for taking the time to post it here

Absolutely outstanding Collection of Lifesaving Medals, Wild Card

All your rare medals even seem to have nice original ribbons, is that true?

Thanks again for posting your treasures

Fantastic Group, Kim. Thanks for sharing

Oh my god, what a collection. Thanks for sharing, Alan.