Gerd Becker

Thanks, Dave. Don?t pull it out of the box, if its difficult. I just wanted to know, if its numbered at all. What a wonderful example. I hope, i?ll find a Soviet award to a foreigner for my collection too. That would be a nice addition.

I cross my fingers, that you get the other one.

Thanks again

Gerd

Thanks for the heads up. I had them on my watch list, although i probably would not have bid on them because the order book looked wrong somehow to me. The value of the single medals is close to the market value, so it doesn?t make much sense to bid on them though.

Gerd

I have heared, that these red Order of Glory boxes where used for foreigners.

Maybe just a rumour or misinformation.

regards

Andreas

I guess, you are right, Andreas. If i am not mistaken, this glory is the one shown on Daves website from an American, ACMM Cecil R. Haycraft, US Navy.

Dave, as you don?t show the reverse of the Glory on your website and as there is no S/N-entry in the orders book, i wonder, is it numbered at all? Nice piece, btw

Gerd

What a fantastic example

I am astonished that it already arrived.

Gerd

Thanks, Andreas. I am sorry, that no Service Record was included. That was also the case with one of my ORB?s.

Gerd

Andreas,

which units did he serve in? And was a photo included?

Gerd

Heiko,

thanks for the Geography lesson

I think, it looks really good, but what do i know? Isn?t there a minimal chance for this clasp? Maybe a dyslexic jeweller?

Gerd

Friends,

If you allow me I would sort the items and place at some Russian collectors' sites, if nobody has done it before?

Dima

Sure, Dima. The wider its spread, the better.

I can?t edit my post above, so i add it here:

Military Merit Medal

Nr. 1.116.257

Gerd, it seems it was written by a woman, who is an owner of the orderbook??? I guess it was written by illeterate granny...

Dave, I used to serve for some insane admirals at the North Fleet also... but they were not retired... You cannot image what they said and wrote...

Dima, retired ExO of Delta-4

Dima,

its written on the last page in the ordersbook to Pavel Philonovich Velichko. I don?t know, maybe written from his wife?

Thanks again, guys.

Gerd

1. Velichko Pavel Philonovich

2. Arapov Kuchkenbay

3. Weather discription (poor Russian with gramma mistakes!!!) - really strange:

"9 February 1955, 1 am - it is thundering..."

Dima

Dima,

thank you very much Good to see, you still around here, btw.

Gerd

What about the alleged misspelling of "NASSOB"? Does that fit your "good enough" theory in terms of quality control?

PS I lust after your China bar!

I googled NASSOB and got 106 hits. It seems, like sometimes it was indeed spelled this way, also pre-45.

Gerd

This was the last page of an orderbook. Is it of any relevance?

Gerd

Number two:

Hello Gentlemen,

i would appreciate, if anyone would be able to help me with the translation of the following two names. I am just not good enough yet to read handwritten Russian very well.

Thanks in advance

Here is the first one:

What a beautiful and impressive badge

Gerd

My Mongolian Best Herder Badge arrived from Germany of all places today. A most impressive piece of enamel work, only appreciated in hand. There's an earlier style than this that is extremely crude....

This one is numbered 3660

Very nice Rick, you are hooked

Gerd

No problem. After all it's Christmas time

One day I hope to own another DKiG, but the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine bug has caught again. Not to mention Gerd who keeps showing his Russian stuff

Haha , i wish, mate Forget all that uniteresting Soviet Stuff and send it to me, all worries gone You are sleepy, very sleepy.... now take that Order of Lenin....

Btw, i thought, you dotted DKiG was a beauty I am sorry, you were talked into send it back

Gerd

reverse

Hello Gentlemen,

can anyone of you tell me, if this Iron Cross 2nd class is okay and maybe also the maker?

Thanks in advance

Gerd

This one was actually researched by my researcher then sold to me, so I don't know exactly how he did it. However, I assume he simply researched the name through the archives, or perhaps got a general time period for the Ukaz (it was in October 1957) and went from there. I'm currently having another unnumbered Valor medal that's just a book and medal combination, and an unnumbered Military Merit medal that's the senior medal in a group to an admiral (impressive career!) researched, so we'll see how those turn out.

Dave

As far as he told me, he is also able to make research only with a Name.

Nice Christmas-Present

Gerd

Of all the TR bars I always think that this pairing above most, speaks to you. Nice.

I like this combination most too. And these are two real awards, as the Ostmedaille is often mistaken as a Campaign-Medal, which it was not. Of course its related to the East-Campaingn, but nevertheless it was officially an award and not a Campaingn-Medal.

Nice Bar

Gerd

Excellent work, Rick

Gerd

Absolutely unbelivable! What a group!

Thanks so much for sharing it with us

Gerd

Fantastic group, Rick. Especially with the very early and proudly worn ORB 1st type

Thanks for sharing

Gerd

PS: Keep me in mind, when you write your testament

wow, Rick, where did you hide this one?