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Medal "For Fire Prevention"

Awarded to personnel of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (including services, agencies, institutions and organizations attached to the ministry) with seniority of at least 10 years within the ministry, for the effective implementation of high quality regulations to prevent, predict and mitigate the effects of fires, and the implementation of special supervisory and control functions on matters within the competence of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, and to other citizens for outstanding contribution to the development and improvement of preventive measures in the field of fire safety.

Medal "For the Salvation of the Drowning"

Awarded to the most distinguished staff of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, and in some cases, to other citizens, for displaying courage, bravery and self-sacrifice in rescuing people from bodies of water; for the successful management of subordinates in the completion of a rescue from a body of water; for skilful and decisive actions and professional excellence in contributing to the prevention of accidents with people on bodies of water.

Five new MES awards were established on 28 June 2012 by ministerial order 372.

-Commemorative Medal "Marshal Vasily Chuikov"

-Medal "For the Salvation of the Drowning"

-Medal "For Fire Prevention"

-Badge "Excellent Member of a Military Rescue Unit"

-Badge "Veteran of the MES of Russia"

My apologies for the lack of quality photos, the images are straight out of the ministerial order, I have yet to find good photos of these new awards.

Commemorative Medal "Marshal Vasily Chuikov"

Awarded to personnel of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations (including services, agencies, institutions and organizations attached to the ministry), and to other citizens, for many years of impeccable service to the cause of civil defence, for improving management, communications and the civil defence alarm system, for maintaining a high degree of preparedness.

No opinions? Thoughts?

It is a "Sahara" clasp for each individual decree, it's an omission from the web master, I'll e-mail him about it.

Sahara clasp:

-Created by decree on 26 September 1900 for award to civil servants and military personnel for participation in operations in the extreme South of Algeria between 25 December 1899 and 26 September 1900.

-(11 Dec 1900 decree) Awarded to French and indigenous military personel and goumiers who were part of the support and resupply column of the Foureau et Lamy mission that operated between Temassinine and Tadent from October 1898 to March 1899.

-(24 Aug 1904 decree) Awarded to French and indigenous military personel who took part in the police operations in Southern Oran in April and May 1904, under the command of infantry batallion commander Pierron, operations that caused the incidents at Taouz ( 26 April ), at Ghabet Kerkour and Oglat Berda (3 May).

-(24 Dec 1904 decree) Awarded to military personel who took part in the 1904 operations in Touareg country in the massif of Adrar.

-(24 June 1905 decree) Awarded to French and indigenous military personel as well as to indigenous auxiliaries who took part in battle of Garat-Bouifa (Southern Oran) on 31 December 1904.

-(9 Nov 1905 decree) Awarded to French and indigenous military personel who took part in the reconnaissance carried out in the Iguidi region under the command of the captain in charge of the Sahara Touat company from 1 November 1904 to 8 Januaryr 1905.

There are another 45 or so decrees awarding this clasp for the Colonial medal. You can find it at http://www.france-ph...com/accueil.htm then click on Décorations (at left) then scroll down to Médaille Coloniale (1893).

If you wish, I can translate the lot for you, tonight though, I'm simply too tired and am hitting the sack.

Cheers!

More pics.

This helmet is in a small museum in Southern Quebec I found by accident this summer. It was identified as from the 1914-1918 Era. I'm no expert on the field by a long shot, but the eagle seemed older than that, or is it just beat up?

Any thoughts?

Beautiful items!

When I was stationed in Germany, I used to regularly hit the flea markets and antiques markets in Belgium and the Netherlands. I didn't only purchase ODMs, I came out with dozens of large Royal Delft pieces and complete sets, not the cheaper smaller modern stuff, I mean the older stuff. You could still buy incredible treasures in some of the smaller places. The younger people wanted modern furniture in their homes, incredible family treasures dating back multi generations were on tables in flea markets at ridiculously low prices... It wasn't only China or porcelaine, solid oak century+ old furniture to give you goose pimples just from admiring them... Oh how I wish an airman made more money in those days!

In my familiy, I'm the one attracted to such incredible works of art. My wife doesn't care as long as it isn't a dribble glass... I for one would completely fill my house with such beautiful and ornate craftsmanship. I wish I had been born when such attention to details was the rule and not the incredibly rare exception.

Now hold on here....some of his time was playing WoW, so not all of his time was wasted fixing up his house

Just my luck, I probably just pissed off a 40+ power magi (whatever the frig that is) that'll turn me into a newt if I ever log onto that mind numbing game... ;)

Work on your house? The house can wait!

You've got some of us hooked on your model here! ;)

The Justice MInistry Medal of Valour is an extremely high award, I've only seen it worn by ranking members of OMON who earned them in combat. The Order of Courage is a high state award for bravery, it isn't an efficiency award. How many sergeants of junior lieutenants have you seen walking around with a Medal "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order"?

This guy was no junior member, and he wasn't a prison guard... Unless he single handedly stopped a major prison riot during a visit from the governor simultaneously saving the latter's life. And no, there's no way it's a complete set.

Once again, I would only bid on a set such as this for the individual awards I needed and would ignore the documents thus greatly limiting the maximum price I'd dish out. Sorry, but I've learned to follow my instincts on sales like this. I've seen too many large sets broken up in the USA with the docs going with half the medals and the other half of the medals being joined by purchased ones to make a second set that looks legit.

It probably looks better?

Uwe

That it does...

190 blood donations? Man! That would fill a 45 gallon drum!

Is the list in Dutch a scan or in electronic format that could be copied and pasted into an e-translator? My Ducth sucks... I only remember this "twee frikandellen met friet alstublieft"... :whistle:

Probably they came with the main dish as free bonus

Who needs them anyway

Definitely not your usual ministry medal made by souvenir shop

As far as I remember this set was sold for $300 or $400.

Yikes! Except for the Valour medal, the other 2 are borderline worthless... And the medal isn't worth that much, maybe $125, $150 on a good day. For that auction to hit $300+, there must've been 2 or 3 individuals fighting it out who lost track...

At first glance I figured it was a set from a member of OMON, they transferred from the MVD to the Justice Ministry some years ago, but the award dates are backwards. After further examination, I wouldn't pay 2 extra kopeks for the fact this is supposedly a set. IMHO, it's made up and the documents faked or partially faked. Individually, if real medals, they're worth between $450 and $550.

1- Inter ministerial awards are only permitted with a few select medals, the MVD Decoration for Faithfulness to Duty isn't one of them.

2- The 3 middle awards (Min Justice Medal of Valour, 2 State awards = Decoration "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order" and the Order of Courage) are as high as it gets short of being a Hero of the Russian Federation, this guy had to be OMON, and a fairly high ranking member. No other ministerial awards? No commemoratives? No breast badges for efficiency? No public awards? No unit badge? Me thinks not! Such a highly decorated individual would've been showered with medals, badges and pins!

3- The 2 last ones are un official semi tolerated awards that dissapeared prior to the dates at which they were supposedly awarded. The last one was replaced by this one http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/gallery/image/3376-cross-for-service-in-the-caucasus-1-class-gold/ which was adopted by all ministries and departments. The badge for participation in combat ops has no equal in the Justice Ministry. If MVD, then this one: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/gallery/image/3411-decoration-for-participant-in-combat-operations/

Like I said, I.d be extremely weary... To the point of not bidding at all.

Can you please shed some light on these 2 neck orders?

Are they awarded for giving blood, if so, how many gallons? Or are they part of the Order of the Belgian red Cross?

What is the significance of the devices onm the ribbon?

OK... Thanks. Speedytops' medal's bars are still weird. Shouldn't it be two bars of 4 stars and one bar of 1 star?

The set is unfortunately quite incomplete... A veteran's badge usually means 25 years of service meaning we're missing 3 long service medals (1st, 2nd and 3rd class). The "Medal for Valour" is quite interesting though! Odd that no other breast badge was present...

Just out of curiosity, how much did these fetch?

For those of you who might be interested, here's a link to the complete list of recipients of the Belgian 1830-31 Iron Cross (1833). This on line book in French also includes all related Laws and Decrees. A very sweet -gratis- reference!

http://books.google....=gbs_navlinks_s

Could someone please explain to me the star-bar system? Why multiple bars?

It's been a while... Where's the München???

So the medal with M.S.A. is pre 1993.

I also have one with 1973 on its clasp, when would they have started putting the year on the upper clasp versus M.S.A.??

I think the best medal that came out of Russia was in the 1990's was the commemorative for the first McDonalds a truly fantastic work of art. When are they going to do a McMammoth medal (burgers made from the finest Siberian defrosted mammoth meat) or does it exist already?

Paul

They just don't get it...