Ed_Haynes

Sudan Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Established in 1933 and awarded to enlisted members of the force for eighteen years of service with good conduct.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now GOTTA get that service record and such. Thanks.

Nope. Not Algerian, Tunisian. Never guess when jetlagged: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar He would have been Minister of Defence in 1981.

The document; the award spread.

The document; the name page spread.

Previously mentioned in http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3196&st=14 Thanks to a good Forum Friend, I now have a documented specimen, awarded (I would guess) to an Algerian (being in French and guessing who would be friendly enough with Bulgaria in 1981 to get one, though research looms). The medal, with quirky mounting.

Sorry, Rick,I am confused, well I am jetlagged, but I am confused too. What do you want? Thanks (as always) for the help!

KB: (Pretty smudged!)

Victory Germany:

Warsaw:

Caucasus:

Council of Ministers Prize Medal Created in 1981, this is the early type with stamped serial number (most are engraved), #0245.

State Prize Medal The single-class successor to the Stalin Prize and the three-class State Prize. This one is said to date from the 1970s-1980s, #7584.

We have (by implication) a thread that touches on the Lenin Prize http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18407 and one focused on the Stalin Prize http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=17932 but what about the others? As badly documented as they are, maybe we can contribute something.

Thanks, Rick. As the group is right here, of which stamps would you want to see better scans?

Well, it does happen. I know this for a fact and have several projects going with the publisher. Maybe the OMSA doesn't know. Given the opportunity, I shall surely explore this with them.

I know a publisher who will do as few as 10-20 copies, within a few weeks, at no cost to you, and sell for as little as $15. And has this been discussed with the OMSA?

Thanks for this, Paul. And welcome.

As there is so little on this conflict from any side and even less that seems in any way balanced and reliable, I would hope we'd have space on the analytical table for a range of sources. It would however be nice to see sources that cited their own sources, but that is a widely shared problem and few who choose to be involved in the discussion seem to be able to go beyond shouting/saying, loudly and confidently, that what they Believe to be True is In Fact True. While we may yet be too close in time for any balanced historical view, it would be interesting to see, someday.

Interesting, Alexei. Thanks! Hard to tell sometimes how someone will age, but . . . .

Detailed textual information and serious research, not just lovely images. Actually, what we need is a high quality (English-language or bllingual) book in four volumes on Chinese awards (1- Imperial, 2- early republic and warlords, 3- PRC, and 4- Taiwan).

For a thread on the Hungarian Zalka M?t? Commemorative Medal 1956, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19808

Just in. And I am very happy (in part because just 174 were awarded). But -- as Charles has told me-- this one is even more interesting. And I'd rather he explain what he has learned. Over to you Charles . . . . But, first, the eye-candy:

And the document.

Buried in the mega-thread at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11559&st=149 and since I just got a cased and documented specimen I thought these deserved their own thread. As is said at the above-referenced post: And the pretty one, in gold: