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Gasp!- ...it's so beautiful!! :jumping:

Any chance a long serving technical service NCO who got bumped up?

Gosh- If only that Hanovarian medal could talk- :Cat-Scratch:

wow! Shows how the mundane is actually- not. That's a very late date for an HKx award and may be the latest I can remember ever seeing. Note the number in the left.

A good number of U.S. Spanish-American war veterans applied for and received this medal. It is not uncommonly seen in vets' photos well into the 1940s.

Ed is right-take for example the French at Gallipoli. I had no idea they were there until an album was sold on eBay last year! A HUGE gap is the Russo-Turkish front! Nobody seems to know anything about it.

By the way- In My humble opinion a "South Asian Battles and Medals" would be a work of lasting importance and bring great fame and glory to the authors, if done well. I would also buy a copy in a heartbeat and so would more than a few OMRS buffs. By the way, Ed-do you have any thoughts on the Kargil war book? (Strategic failure, tactical victory?)?

well, I recognize that!! That was almost a cousin of mines' Xmas present in 2007. Can you make it any clearer?

Good lord. What are those? Can you make better pictures of the pieces? Reading what they say will help identify them. I suspect there's a few "Collective activist" or "excellent sugarcane worker" badges there.

They do fake these-it's a strange world. weight? measurements? magnetic?

There was such a Bund. It might well be such a badge. I have never seen one, but know the Bund existed and met annually in Vienna until 1938.

Good Lord!! That's a nice collection. In the last panel there's a DDR, Mongolian, Cuban Soliarity and what I suspect is a Derg Ethiopian badge (lower right -triangle-looks like the Socialist collectivist award for the DDR)? NICE! Chuck is da man!! :jumping:

Nice, rare, rare rare pics. I LOVE the sport badges being worn. I reckon they are worth a LOT more than you paid for them back in 2001! :Cat-Scratch:

This is a messed with 1921 Polish Silesian eagle-note the crown, the head facing the other way etc. etc.. Created in 1921 through the GKPGS (The Central Committee for the Liberation of Silesia) in Warsaw, the lower scroll should be "O Slask". During the Nazi occupation people wearing these were not treated nicely, as the Silesian "troubles"of 1918-1920 had been marked by some very nasty Polish "ethnic cleansing". The Nazis did not have to exaggerate much about what happened and took a cruel and viscous revenge where they could. The Gestapo actually hunted down members of the GKPGS. These have been around since the late 1970s that I am aware of and I suspect some wag in the UK either made these or messed with some "originals" that were made in exile. In the old days there weren't many Polish collectors, but there were lots of TR collectors and that's where the money was. Measurements are 50x 31 mm. Originals are rather rare but there was one on eBay last month for a scant $400, which isn't far off what an original would be worth I reckon. The white eagle is the most common of Polish Silesian awards. It may also have been recognized by the Peoples' Republic of Poland. I doubt however, this is an original. But I know the people to ask....so does Rick!

Interesting- If you wish to get rid of that merit medal, let me know. I strongly suspect the Derg medals were made in the DDR. All the medals I have encountered so far have had blank, "pebbled" reverses. Is there a difference in weights?

Unique, very cool and obviously a premier private purchase piece! A superb bit of medal there!! If you ever wish to sell....let me know please.

That's a new one for me. Is that for 1914 war volunteers only?

The bottom medal-is that not the Military Merit medal 2/3rd class?

I would love to see them!! :Cat-Scratch:

Indeed! Bravo!!!!

This is a 1941/42 photo-- it was not allowed to wear a KVK2X with any WW2 EK before then, and he's wearing it in the short lived and justly despised "proper" precedence of that period before his HOH3X. Oh, for a NAME !!!!!!!!!!!! I am curious. How did the KVK2x precedence change between 1940 and 1945?

wow oh wow!! I assume that is a 1980s type of pin? A bankers' badge- I LOVE it!!

Do you chaps check them with magnets at all?

This is true. I knew a chap who did his PHD work on the African armies colonial transitions (1920-1970). Sadly he died last year (and is the source of the Ugandan medals at Lowell), but this 'factoid' was one of his bugaboos. Idi Amin made it up and who ever checked or cared to check?

In old photos light colours go darkish-color spectrum shift.