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"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Chris, I removed the red from the background and lightened the image of the Grenadier Guard epaulette for you here! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Alexandre, there is http://www.diggerhistory.info that has what you are looking for as to Air Marshals in the Second World War. Go see DIGGER HISTORY! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" The other day I received unsolicited email from a manufacturer in Sialkot, Pakistan offering me WW1 and WW2 German badges and one of them looked something likethat one, but it appeared to be sand-cast? I wonder if it is re-enactors who buy and wear these while re-enacting various campaigns? Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" 20 Mayo 1902 Recuerdo Saguala Grande (reverse side). Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" 1902 Constitucion de la Republica Cubana (obverse). Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Reverse side of the 1882 Alfonso XII medal. Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Here is the 1882 (obverse side) of the Alfonso XII a los Voluntarios de Cuba (Constancia Patriotismo Abnegacion). Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Here is the reverse side of the Medruga Municipality Medal of the 1880s. Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

Welcome to The Cuban Militaria Forum! An area of militaria with some interest and almost no references, information, etc. I will try and collate and post threads and details as they come together. Please feel feel free to add your examples to the individual threads on each of the Orders, Decorations and Medals!

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Here is a fascinating medal from 1880s Cuba, Madruga Municipality. Shown here is the obverse side. It is my belief that medals of Cuba are far too often over-looked and there appears to be sparse information on them. Only the medals of Puerto Rico seem harder to find? Eric Bush did a nice set of colour pages on the current Cuban ribbon bars in his RIBBON REVIEW. Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

Have you followed the whole insanity of the recent "Stolen Valor" act? Apparently not?

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Yes, Stolen Valor Act as I comprehend it is about people illegally getting the MEDAL OF HONOR and wearing it, but I still can buy any other medal of the United States Armed Forces here in southern California at local gunshows and insignia meetings. As I recall, the United States Congress puts forth Bills and many go nowhere with them. The only Bill from Congress that I understand passed was to do with the MOH, not necessarily the other medals. I have been collecting since the early 1950s and remember when one could not legally buy and sell U.S. Armed Forces medals. I was in the American Society of Military Insignia Collectors and contributed articles and my own graphic art and am still active in assisting writers of books on insignia as an unpaid volunteer. I believe posers who wear the MOH should be prosecuted, but do not see a need to restrict other awards. Its very easy to buy any medal or a handgun, even when it was not legal. I own neither! I gave away my own medals to a collector in the UK. Whether they pass the "Stolen Valor Act" or remains moot with all due respect, sir! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" One could probably have a die made of the Order of Stalin and make copies marked as such for re-enactors? Looks sort of like the U.S. LEGION OF MERIT breast star, doesn't it? Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Under U.S. Title 17, only the MEDAL OF HONOR cannot be given away, sold, or traded. No other other medals and controled as the ban of buying, trading, and selling full size U.S. medals was lifted several decades ago. eBay staff is like a box of cereal, full of flakes and nuts. Purple Heart Medal sells for about US$25.00 to US$40.00 and are quite plentiful. Distinguished Service Medals cost about US$75.00 more or less as a lot goes into manufacturing them. You always need to ask the person selling the medal how much shipping & handling will cost and if they can ship to where you are at? Under the U.S. Embargo on Cuba, we in the States cannot buy Cuban medals, so we have someone in the UK get them delivered to their address and remailed to the U.S. Be sure to have whomeversells you something declare NO VALUE on the customs declaration sticker! Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California

"GREETINGS & SALUTATIONS!" Although not a medal, Fidel Castro-Ruz might have been familiar with Brigada Ordoqui, perhaps? Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California