Ed_Haynes

The unfortunate (and troubling?) reverse.

Just to preserve the image and the history. The description: With apolgies to Igor!

Any change of a scan (which would be legible)? So many of the contemporary political parties have established things named after the great man . . .

For those who may not have seen it yet, there is a delightful article in the January-February 2008 JOMSA: Charles H. Pankey and Dragos Baldescu, "Royal Romanian Order of the Crown (Ordinul Corona Romanie)," JOMSA 59, 1 (January-February 2008): 2-12.

Very interesting. I have (and Battushig shows) the "school diamond" for this university, but we don't know much else and the badge you show is quite new. Will try to learn more. These are the sorts of things that should gop into the second edition of Battushig's book!

Doh . . . . . . of course . . . I like learning things, even if I get to look stupid in the process. Mr. Holmes said something about the obvious? Like named or numbered things better . . . .

Plausible, I guess, though quite odd to my novice eyes too. But how would you ever know for sure? Easy enough to assemble?

How careful were French veterans in purchasing the exact reverse dates to which they were entitled? We may never know? Was this checked with any care by the vendors who sold them these medals? Obviously, the reverse dates mattered to the veteran who wore Chris' recent (lovely) group, but was this unusual or common? I have always assumed that medals awarded (unusual in French phaleristics) to foreigners (I have some groups with CdGs to Indians, from both wars) were dated based on when the deed was performed, or was it the date of the authorising orders? Many questions, few answers.

It will continue free, I suspect.

Yes, quite a lovely group. A shame there's no name to go with it, but in its lovely anonymous state it represents quite well any one of the soldiers. The emerging theory makes sense to this outsider. I do wonder however whether he may have had a Victory originally mounted, but removed it when the CdC came along to make space for the new award. In any case, this arrangment speaks of the unknown repipient.

Yes, the price, for my money, was insane. QUITE. But, ECON 101, it is worth just what some damn fool will pay for it on any given date. While e$cam may be a bad guide, . . . . Glad I have the SBs I do. They won't see many newly visiting cousins, I'm content to have to say. They can just deal with that fact. Now . . . for reasearch . . . .

Interesting. At 902 it is really low for a pinback, but not the recorded low (813). Assume it was an undocumnetd single? Price?

No one has a clue on the post-1992 order of precendence (and there's scant enought by way of a guide to pre-1992 precedence). I have a question outstanding in UB on just that issue right now. I know the "second edition" will be doing more in this regard.

Whatever that may be, it is not the Order of Chengis Khan, despite what it says. The phrase "fantasy-fake" comes to mind. We know many Russian collectors have deep pockets, maybe they have active imaginations as well. That isn't even the ugly "Order of Chingis Khan" created by the Mongolian Democratic Party (B 48). It is worse than that! Megan: While three classes have been authorised, only the first has even been awarded to date (the collar and badge) and that only twice (to presidents N. Bagabandi and N. Enkhbayar); the second and third classes have, so far as I know, not even been manufactured. While it could be listed, I think not. Without permission (and I hate doing this), I am posting Battushig's image to forestall further disinformation. I would have thought most have his book by now -- it is good immunization against epidemic outbreaks of imaginary medals -- but apparently not. See p. 44.

Our friendly New Jersey dealer has an interesting Tsarist pair: http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=18549 Pocket change, right . . . ?? For some, maybe.

And, if you think Soviet prices are crazy, try this Tsarist twin: http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=18549 Just over THREE TIMES the previous . . . Nice . . . but . . .

Insane price? Maybe? Maybe not? RBL type 1.1: http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=18414 Just $65,000.00. Just.

Yes. I fear the quiz is on life support just now.

This is the Goild Star for the title "Hero of the Soviet Union". Roughly, a Victoria Cross or Medal of Honor equialent (roughly).

There are a LARGE number of threads in the "researched" sub-forum with Red Stars.

Not of much use to most of us, alas.

Looks Egyptian to me. But that is just a guess.

Early enough, I think it would be worth asking. If the answer is "no", it costs nothing (even though it takes more "person-hours" to get a negative result than to get a positive one).

Unless a reunification was in play . . .

Sometimes, sure. There are a number of researched ones presented here. Many, however (late? unissued? secret?), defy research. Still, worth asking, but we're pretty much down to The Sole Source for Research. All research, however, seems to be stalled (at best) these days. Not sure if there has been a policy mood-shift in Russia?