Ed_Haynes

U 12 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 11 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 09 -- The Pioneer Camp

U 08 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 04 -- Baatarchuud Pin

U 03 -- Baatarchuud Pin

U 02 -- Baatarchuud Pin

U 01 -- Baatarchuud Badge

Odd, I have found the one (and only, even though a few miles away) MAX I even attended to be a cruel joke, populated by fairly knowledge-challenged folk who mainly seemed motivated by their love affair with the 3rd Reich. OMSA has a more interesting, professional, focused, coherent, often knowledable, and frequently wise group. Pricing? Whatever the market will bear. Blame capitalism. And if you don't like the prices, you don't have to buy; there is a room-full of vendors. Much as I love the OMRS, their meeting is a one-day shark feeding frenzy. Great to see friends, bad to get medals, and no seminars or anything else of reddeming social value. Unless you want to be in person at the DNW auction of do research in London, give it a pass. And, relevant to many here, it will be mostly British; great for some of us, but perhaps not for others. Sorry to miss OMSA this year, shall give OMRS a miss, and shall never bother with another MAX even though an 18 minute drive away (may meet one dealer, if he comes again, in the parking lot).

Dave makes a really good point, and one we ought all to ponder.

I think, especially on these Mongolian badges, the gold- versus silver-coloured business may just be random variation in manufacturing. The same sort of thing we see with the Soviet 25th Anniversary of the GPW badge? What do we think??

L 07 -- The Oil Industry, Mongolian Oiler

L 14 -- The Outstanding Worker of the Energy Sector

L 02 -- The Outstanding Miner of the MPR

In the spirit of what is happending elsewhere on this sub-forum, may we please see this as a general "Battushig's category 'D'" forum.

M 30 -- Post Pin

M 23 -- The Outstanding Worker of Trade and Service

M 15 -- The Outstanding Worker of Public Service

M 06 -- The Outstanding Worker of Finance and Banking With the 1960-92 coat of arms.

M 03 -- The Outstanding Worker of Trade Note that this one is numbered, #0303".

M 01 -- The Outstanding Service Provider

Q 13 -- The Agency of Meterology

Q 10 -- 50 Years of MIAT

Q 05 -- Three Million Hours Flight Pilot Badge

Q 03 -- The Outstanding Worker of MIAT