Chris S

The numbers............

The back...just love the hanger...

Well ... I only have this lowly 3rd Class: ...with all due respect no such thing!

Here is a pair on a hanger...3rd and 2nd class...the only way to confirm they belong to each other is research...but the wear indicators suggest they are a pair...

Chris

Some of the examples in AVERS No 5

Chris

The back which does show they were silver finished....

Chris

Here is one of my badges...early civil war cap badge...in bronze

RCT

Rough Cut Timber as in planks or Royal Corps of Taxis.

and of course for all regt's Pongo's as every where the army goes the pong goes with them..............

Chris

The 1939 version which was then replaced by the best series for all trades..

1928 version...one of my favourite badges

Gerd I don't know, although I remember seeing somewhere that the sniper badge was for an amount of confirmed kills (I maybe wrong)..these badge's follow a long tradition of best awards....below is a 1911 Best Shotist..

Chris

Belonging to Morev Aleksei Uvanovii...pity the picture was removed but this is a common practise.

Chris

The Doc...I managed to get the two most important medals from this group...I imagine the lower ones were sold off first...

Chris

The Back

The Order of Lenin Screwback Type 4...issued pre 1943 when the statutes changed and it got a hanger.

Chris

I reckon this guy spent his complete war at the siege of Leningrad ...his award card for the Victory over Germany was issued by an Engineer Btn...

Rick....as for his rank and career...I don't know his award book has his name and his list of awards which correspond with the medals I have...except interestingly his second Red Banner was not numbered as in "2" but was a single award of 150,353.

Somehow it appears that he swapped it...or got one by some means...I certainly was not going to complain having a nice low No 2 in the 4K range issued in WW2.

Chris

The number

The Back

Slightly Oblique....two piece construction

The order of the Red banner of Labour is the second oldest order of the USSR...these medals are typical of the erosion of the prestige of the many Soviet awards (my opinion) as they became awarded by the thousand for far lesser acts.

Before the Great Patriotic war the award had only been issued 8000 times since its inception in 1928, by the end of the war, it still had only been awarded 30,000 times.

At the end of the USSSR it had however been awarded 1,260,000 times. These orders were still very well made which show the great enameling which the Russians were so good at.

So many variation, so little time

This is a a Type 2 (love to find a type 1) Screwbacks issued before the war.

Chris

The Group it belongs to...............

and its screwback plates..........

The back............

A nice early issue...when it was the Russian Federation...ironically as it is now...

The back......38,432...I think he has some cousins here........