Chris S

Kimi...great group!

Here's a police badge similar to yours...still has a piece of red cloth attached and is complete with rear plate.

Chris

The back...the screwback Plate is very similar to early Red Banners...

Chris

Thanks Chuck...you have some great badges...thank you for sharing...

I have dug my scanner out..this is the front again...it is silver...

Chris

One more........oh... and nice badges Chuck!

Chris

A few more...........

Back.............

Another look.........

Here are two of mine...

From a good source:

These pieces were on consignment and were returned to the owner.

My source is 99% sure.

Rusty.

That does not make sense...

Chris

Oops I followed the thread what appeared to me as Spanish Cross Fots...looking again I see it appears to be dedicated to panzer troops.

Remove please if inappropriate.

Chris

Major General Walter Grabmann

Spainsh Cross in Gold.

Chris

This is a badge for the Trans Siberian Railway built in the 20ties and 30ties....not quite an honoured Railway badge but even harder to come by.

Chris

I haven't had a problem finding them. I just bought eight from the Baltics for a very reasonable price. The seller had a good number more - I just couldn't afford to buy them all!

Dave

I live in the Baltics...please tell me where....they use European and USA prices now at least.....I find prices here now more expensive than USA.

Chris

I tend to use the main Soviet dealers as combat indicators for my judgement on prices and availability...(350,000 of the Ist class were issued so they should be common if compared to the numbers of other awards.)

I talk in terms of their availability on comparative terms with yesteryear and today..... I used to always find them quite easily in these parts...but now very expensive compared to prices of old and I agree..not an every day item...but easily found compared to today...now they are not.

I hate to think how much what was an everyday item will cost in ten years time.

I saw that guards badges from ww2 going for 90 Dollars on a US site.

I don't indulge in ebay and I agree anything is easy to find if you have the money.

I found this Guards Majors Group 3 years ago for 200 dollars with docs and other medals...oh happy days...and to think at the time I oommed and ahhhed...

I have used the Pat Wars as a Mcdonalds index on availablity and prices...

Chris

OK...maybe a stupid question...but what was once quite a fairly simple award to find has now dried up compared to only a short time ago.

I always considered these awards as the most attractive and available at a good price (my opinion)

I consider this an omen for other medals.

I found these two recently for 150 Euro on a German site of all places...a bit damaged but well worth it I consider.

Just a few pondering thoughts on this attractive award.

Chris

A 1938 Navigators Badge

Maybe some sort of early pilots badge...seen pictures of something similar but not the same....

Chris

Another 1923 badge

Chris

Sorry Rick

But I will regress even more from your original thread...these badges trace back even further to 1923.

What the award criteria is I don't know but definitely in helping with soviet air power.

Anyway..beautiful badges executed in silver...according to my AVERS 5 the 1923 marked badge was also made in gold but I have never seen one of those.

Chris

This is an example I have..

The back

This is an example I have

Chris

Any other badge collectors??............oh yes.....

Chris

Whilst I agree with the above...it was wazzer going to war on the Canberra...a decent cabin...great cinema....even had washing machines...

and a lovely deck to run around...but yes, pollies do take the piss...

Chris

In the case