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Are you sure? I thought Dmitry Markov had stepped out of Mongolian awards a year or so ago.

May be not that recenlty. He sure had one for sale last year...

I think the general sense was that it was an invented set.

It looks like put-together set of awards.

Why would a Soviet officer receive a Polar Star - mostly civilian award?

Why not?

Prices on Soviet awards these days are what anyone can inflate them to. The real "value" of an award today is what you can sell it for and what someone will pay for it, NOT what it's actually worth.

Just my two cents.

Dave

Prices are also a function of geographical location.

For example, what is considered overpriced in the US is often quite a bargain price in Russia...

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I might add that I had a nice conversation with Igor at the 2004 MAX in Charlotte. At that time he mentioned that it was changes in the Russian collector market in particular that was driving his valuations. He stated it had gotten to the point that he could seek out items sold to long time customers and buy back material he had once sold... Buying it back at a price higher that he sold it for in the first transaction and make money again on the Russian market

Mike

That's what usually happens, lots of awards seen on major dealer sites find ther way back to the same dealer who originally sold the awards.

Not anymore.

any documents to accompany the awards?

Interesting data, Bob. Thanks! Pretty much says where the price threshold line lies.

Bob,

I recall Dmitry Markov had a pinback for sale recently. Does anyone know what it was sold for?

William

Hi Ed

I only have documents, the photo is rare

Very rare docs.

The market if flooded with motherhood badges, but docs come out just in rare while.

I wonder why?

William

Nice badges!

Is there a book on collecting Yugoslavian badges?

William

The graničari were the border unit guards in old Yugoslavia. Today they don't exist anymore, as far as border controling is not anymore matter of the army, but of the MUP (Ministarstvo Unutra?njih Poslova, Ministry of Internal Affairs), basically policemen.

This was their badge, usually worn on the uniform jacket, on the left chest. Most of them were produced by "IKOM" - Zagreb, some other by "AUR-METAL" - Subotica (Serbia), or, as this one, by "AUREA" - Celje (Slovenia).

The pin, this is from Subotica:

Regards,

Filip

Thanks, Paul I like them too. Hope to add a few more soon...

Nice collection, keep the good thing going.

William

You are probably right. But some still affordable stuff as compared to the german.

Prices of Soviet awards were quite affordable up until 2003-2004, then they went to become insane...

any updates so far...?