Ed_Haynes

B NIB 04 -- 24th Conference of the MPRP

B 41 -- Sukhbaatar and Choibalsan

I 09 -- The Honorary Badge of the Soviet-Mongolian Friendhship Society Has a very "East German" feel to it.

I 08 -- The Honorary Badge of the Soviet-Mongolian Friendhship Society

F 16 -- Dog Trainer, 3rd class Not quite what Battushig shows (he shows the 2nd class), but close enough?

J 35 -- The Outstanding Worker of the Agriculture and Food Industry At least our old friends the "snouts" persist as a part of the design, but, oh, how they've changed.

X 21 -- 50 Years of the Trade Union Amazingly, the ribbon here is actually ribbon (cloth)!!

N 13 -- The Construction Army

N 14 The Special Committee of the Military Construction Unit

Y 01 -- Honorary Badge of the Women's Organization

Thanks for this!! Just dictionary work tells us something!

Congratuilations! Sometimes reunification has to win out over common sense and the rationality of the market. Some things we just HAVE to do as a duty to history!

This is why INTENSIVE research is called for, more than is usual. So much seems to "feel" good that the oddities need to be resolved. All of us await research returns.

1- The rank GNR = Gunner. 2- The ribbon is wrong wrong wrong. See: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/india/medals/PaS71.html (let me know if you need some) 3- What else you want to know? To quote (adapted) from a forthcoming book:

The Pahlavi Iranian order is, as has been mentioned already, the Nishan-i-Liaqat/Order of Merit. It was a three-class order to recognise peacetime military services. This is a first class badge (with some improvisation on the ribbon device). And, yes, the group sees to be saying "military attache"; it should be easy enough to check the diplomatic lists to see who served as French military attache in Tehran and at least get a short list.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Well, it is here. John Hayward, Diana Birch, and Richard Bishop, British Battles and Medals, 7th ed. (London: Spink, 2006; ISBN 1-902040-77-5). All 798 pages of it. At least it is not like the last edition, requiring major structural remodeling of your working and living area in order to use. This one is "only" 7-3/4" x 10-3/4" and 2" thick. It is cloth bound without a dust-jacket. While dust jackets don't survive, I worry for the cloth and that lovely Waterloo Medal reverse on the front cover after a few years of heavy use. Pretty as it is (and heavy as it is), I'm tempted to take it off for rebinding in leather in New Delhi. Inside: full-coated paper with the sorty of smell a book ought to have. All black-and-white (except the ribbon chart (which is a fold-out at the end). Medal images, many familiar, supplemented with images of clasps and (interesting!) images of naming styles. Now let me read and congeal my second imperssions. You do so too, please!

Dave is, of course, right as to the sourcing for these Syrian medals. They come to market through Lebanon. Nice to see some attention to these awards. Arab awards are usually met -- on this forum and elsewhere -- with not much more than snarling derision. Thanks!

Thanks. Have been playing with a sory of "key" to these badges (how good it is to be done with classes and exams!) and am now up to 46 pages. Will send (BIG) PDF to any who are interested, though still much a work in progress.

Yes, quite a rant indeed. Such a rant in the US would gain you a vacation at Guantanamo Bay. May we now, please, get back on topic?

OK, I have had it. I think there are more of these than there are aimag badges! If anyone has any not shown here, could they please post them. (That is "anyone" of the three or four who read this forum!) I am trying to come up with a key to these pesky things.

The problem. The serial number. Fraudulently added to a good unnumbered badge. Still, a nice badge, with a price reflecting what has happened to it.

Badge 100% proper and of properly Mongolian manufacture, down to the screw-plate.

Just in a nice Medal "Gold Soyembo" type 2. But with a problem.

Anna Seregeevna Mikitenko Already discussed elsewhere, just to cross-link here. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13340

Familiar-looking markings . . . ?? Where did he get this plastic? The mystery is revealed on the reverse of the hard plastic piece!