Ed_Haynes

Document anyone?

Issued by the Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1998.

Document interior; to Oleg Iosifovich Kundysh (maybe?).

Document exterior.

Issued by the Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1997.

Document interior. To Iurii Panteleimonovich Egorychev (maybe?).

Document exterior.

Created in 1998 by the Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. A nasty mechanical translation of the rules: The Statute of an award of Stalin. 1. Stalin's award awards the citizens of the Soviet Union who has shown heroism in struggle against an antinational mode, and also the citizens who have brought in the contribution to restoration of uniform Soviet space, construction of socialism, in restoration of industrial potential, an agriculture, in strengthening defensibility and safety of the country, in development of a science and culture, in strengthening friendship between peoples. 2. Rewarding Stalin's by award is made on the basis of the Decree of Constant Presidium of Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR from March, 4, 1998. 3. The right on promotion of candidates for rewarding is given labour collectives, the veteran organizations, left - patriotic parties(sets) and movements. 4. Stalin's award carry on the left party(side) of a breast: on a rank - the second after award Ленина.

Document interior. Awarded to Fyodor Vsilevich Neradovskikh, 16 October 1998 (but you can never be quite sure whether the naming has been added later?).

Document exterior.

Founded 16 October 1998 by the Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. It was to be awarded to all soldiers taking part in wars and military conflicts, of an international nature, especially liberation struggles. The reverse shows the regions for which it was awarded: Spain, North Korea, Cuba, Near East, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.

Thanks for the sub-forum! Now it is our duty to fill it up! Get to work, Fran?ois. And all of us need to do our part too. I'll check to see if any RusFed items got posted in the "Rest of the World" forum (where I have the power to move them here). Someone will need to check the Soviet and "Eastern Europe" fora too. How about one thread per award to start with? This is similar to what we have done with Mongolia and it seems to work. It also avoids multi-page jumbled threads of a bit of everthing. This may produce some duplication with what has come before, but that may be OK. May I suggest that we include the issuing agency in the sub-title if it is not an official award. We can use Umalatova as shorthand for Ex-Presidium of the Supreme Soviet?

I have never been able to determine the proper name of the award (in Arabic) and I suspect the rendering of the name over into French has been fairly haphazard. This French usage may (?) be trying to reflect the difference between the first variety (1874-99) and the second (1899-1963).

Way out of my field, but: Iceland Command; and it is upside down.

Love that ribbon bar!!!!!!!!!!!!! Off to decipher . . . .

ABSOLUTELY! But I fear most forumites don't read outside the sub-fora that focus on their own narrow collecting interests.

From what I seen, the sources suggest gold (24K) and a real ruby, before the US-UK embargo forced everything to be wood and plastic.

How lucky to have the photo!

A nice item. Thanks for sharing it here.

Well put, Bob! Hope the Bosses get the point.

Exaclty. If you'd been bashing around in a sack with many other sharp-pointy things for five five decades, . . . .

According to BB&M 7th ed. (not much Gordon left however), there were at least 126 military recipients of the MGS (p. 47 and detailed pp. 645-48). Boulger (or Bulger or Bulgen) is shown on p. 645, not there is no reference to his MGS (which are usually noted). Although the two-clasp MGS qualification you note is included in the write-up of the NGS clasp (p. 133) of which, as you say, he was the sole recipient. Would be quite a group to see! There were 41 naval and marine recipients of the MGS (detailed on p. 649).

I could keep going, but would risk straying even more distantly

An example of what a competent mounter can do (even if they didn't know or care what was the obverse).

How to force a trifold into a completely anachronistic court mount. (Even if it meant chopping off the crown?) (And when did court mounts become so common? It used to be you would mount your medals in that fashion only if -- where do you think the name came from -- you have some court involvement. A post-1960s craze, taken up by the collecting mob? It is a pretty mounting style, though.)