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Nope - not pretty - to me it looks like they were plannning to have the border colored - but never got around to doing it. Wish I could read the embossed stamp - but it was in a picture frame for a while so its mostly obliterated. Still - its nearly one of a kind.

Picked this up the other day. Sort of a plain jane document. The jist of the transaltion is thanking the soldier for helping and doing an excelent job in forming the new Hungarian Military - what makes it so interesting is that 1) its from Debrecen where the Hungarian Provisional Government was formed Later in 1944. In the hopes that it would be the resulting leadership after the Budapest (Arrow Cross) government had capitulated. 2) The 'New Democratic Army' at that time was such a small number and there were no medals begin handed out for anythign - things like this are about all one soldier could hope to get for their service. So - 3) its rare!

if I get the chance I still have a few more to go through

My foavorite subjects - Partsians and the medals for the 1956 revolution

This one is a military only - it was not until 1953 that these medals were issued specificlay for the military.

Labor Medals theme...

Some cased medals

More misc stuff

A mixture of some Excelent Worker / Work badges as well as Kadar era (1957-1989) Excelent Worker badges

Also the cased Excelent Worker - these are from the Rakosi period (1949-1956)

Took some time before goign to work and decided to start cataloging some of my cased medals. Starting off with the Excelent Worker / Work theme...

in case anyone is interested = here is the link to the RVN medals of the same lot. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11156&st=40

A little while back I was able to buy a grouping of RVN medals from a Hungarian collector who got them from a Hungarian captain who served in the small delegation to Vitenam to oversee the peace treaty and disarm bombs / unexploded ordinance. At first I picked up the RVN medals and the tropical caps. I missed out on the US medals that the Hungarian offcier apparently brought back along with the other 'war souveniers' that he picked up in his travels. Today I was lucky as the buyer who beat me out of the US lot of the collection brought back one of the bronze stars. Its nothing specail, just a typical WW2 style Bronze Star and besides a plausable stroy - there is nothign more to say its from Vitenam and was left behind by the US forces. Still - its not going to be let go. I would wonder if anyone else out there has 'bring back' items of a different sort? (IE - US medals, etc... picked up by N Koreans, N Vietnamese, Germans, etc...??)

Even without the makers name its still a 100% period example (1918-30's). The ring may have been changed after the passage of time, but not a big deal. Now you just need a good bath in petrolim distilates and a good ribbon to make o'l Karl shine.

So what if he built a memorial - you dont have to be a liar to do that. Rick - he is just on the fast track for Congress...after he does his slap on the hand, sign him up for the House, he'll fit right in... but - if you want to see what helping veterans and doing things to honor those who have fallen - follow this example... http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18488

Agree with Rick - these turn up pretty often and are post 1918 items. Question is - is there a 'sculptors' mark, just under the shoulder of Karl? Hard to tell from the scans - should be "KAUTSCH" Here is my "zinker" http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=15576

Thank you - Thank you - Thank you! For an American who has all of his familiy members both close and extended to have served in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc... I cant tell you how much your gesture means. No one asked you to, and no one told you to - yet remembeing those who may have been forgotten over the passage of time - Thanks. When you can - could you please post some photos

Hi Soviet - In post #4 you have second photo - the Freedom Square "szabadsag ter" - this is the war memorial for the "Liberation of Hungary". Interestingly enough, this is the Only memorial that was allowed to remain within the city limits that still bore the star, crossed hammer / sycle theme. As a jab for the cold war the story goes the memorial was purposly built right next to the American Embassy - where it remains today. The third, fourth and fifth photo are from "Statue Park". Story goes that after the government change the old statues were hauled outside the city limits to a dump site. Apparently there were some very upset communist / socialists about this event so they got the funding and got 'capitalist' - they turned it into a tourist attraction with a bus that runs out there just about every hour. Photo three is the "Liberator" (as memory recalls right now). This statue was under the Citadel Freedom Statue that commemorated the liberation of Budpaest. The Citadel Freedom Statue is an interesting bit as the sculptor was commissioned to create a memorial for the son of Admiral Horhty who died in a plane accident on the Eastern Front. Apparently he designed a woman holding a propeller high above her head. After the communists took over he was commisioned to create the Freedom Statue - later after the design was revealed jealious friends reported him to the secret police for making the simple modification to the statue he had designed during the war. When the polie arrived at his studio they demanded to see the Horhty commissioned model. Somehow he convinced the police that the model was in storage somewhere and to return within an hour and he would find it by then. The police left and as the legend goes he created the 'original' Horthy statue - still with wet clay on it for the police when they returned.

many thanks for the kind words - as my wife is a retired army paratrooper - she would not throw things at me - she would just put me on the floor with the flash of her hand.

with a big embroidery industry here - I think I could wrangel up a set of partisan slippers for you... Meeting with Agnes Godo again next week or the week after that. I have my suspicions that a vase like this was given to the women as a commemorative piece, but more to know - more to find out.

Heck - its even numbered!

I like to give flowers - not get them too much - but who can resist?

Nine Years Ago Today I married my wonderful wife. As we work hard every eyar to outdo eachother on gifts that follow the 'tradtional' setting (each year you are supposed to give a gift of a specific variety - like Bronze, Paper, Diamond, etc...) This year is the year of porcelan / pottery. So I got this nice vase...

Not only does he have poor english - math is not a strong point either - missed the decimal point a bit.

Long time ago I got a collection of postcards all titled Brest-Lovosk 1915/1916. This photo appears to be of the same MG company. But this one is the only one - truly at the front. No designation as to where this actualy is though?