Ed_Haynes

Lovely photos, Christophe. Thanks!

Interesting. Quite interesting! It could well be Sudanese, as the ribbon seems to be the old Anglo-Egyptian period Long Service and Good Conduct Medal ribbon, but this would have been long obsolete by the period this group/medal seems to represent. The medal is unknown/unrecorded. Any chance of a closer scan?

Nice one, Glenn!

The name of the US medal is the "Medal of Honor". If pedants wish to misspell it, so be it. Much as it is the "Order of the Companions of Honour", not "Honor". As Dave says, once you start translating names into English, you can spell things any way you wish since the name in English is, intrinsically, wrong.

Thanks for posting these documents, Jan!

Why? It is actually one of the more common Nepali medals.

Looks Thai from the suspension clasp. The ribbon would appear to be that of the Freeman Safeguarding Medal (whatever that is). See: http://www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas.../tailandia2.gif

Have no idea what the goat is for, though it is surely nothing official. The Shubha Rajyabishek Padak for the 1956 coronation of King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is surely an attractive medal! Welcome to Nepali medals!

Do so, please. But before or after the football??

With a lot (a LOT) of help from JC (fjcp), here is an updated effort at understanding these delightful little things. Type 1.1 (Mongol legend, crude construction, mirror reverse, integral number) - Low 9/High 380 Type 1.2 (Mongol legend, crude construction, mirror reverse, engraved number) - Low 396/High 399 Type 2.1.1 (Mongol legend, mirror reverse, serial number at 10 o'clock) - Low 32/High 496 Type 2.1.2 (Mongol legend, mirror reverse, serial number at 7 o'clock) - Low 911/High 4100 Type 2.2.1 (Mongol legend, flat reverse, silvered brass, serial number at 6 o'clock) - Low 1128/High 1958 Type 2.2.2 (Mongol legend, flat reverse, silvered brass, serial number at 8 o'clock) - Low 865/High1806 Type 2.2.3(Mongol legend, flat reverse, silver) - Low 4400/High 4586 Type 3 (Cyrillic Legend, unnumbered) Comments, PLEASE!!! As we get to see some documents, we may be able to get some dates overlaid onto this?

Nice, Jan, very nice. Thanks for posting these. I looked (and looked) to try and find a copy myself, but no luck. Now I wish I'd looked even more.

A near-contemporary beard http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8152&st=27 and while, not a beard, close enough? http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8152&st=29

Just a couple of new ones (updated with a nice scan!): 1188876 Lance-Naik Joginder Singh, Artillery 1- Wound Medal - 1188876 L/NK JOGINDER SINGH ARTY 2- Paschimi Star - 1188876 L/NK JOGINDER SINGH ARTY 3- Raksha Medal - 1188876 GNR JOGINDER SINGH ARTY 4- Sangram Medal - 1188876 L/NK JOGINDER SINGH ARTY 5- Sainya Seva Medal, "Bengal-Assam" - 1188876 L/NK J. SINGH ARTY 6- 25th Independnce Anniversary - 1188876 GNR JOGINDER SINGH ARTY 7- Nine Year Service - 1188876 GNR JOGINDER SINGH ARTY

Lovely, thanks for posting. I always like seeing new things (new to me at least) and learning about them.

Nice one, thanks. Proves the value of research!

Nice late silver pinback. Issued? Unissued? Surplus stocks from the state bank? Hard to say until some records open up. As an update: Type 1 (screwback) - Low 83/High 3744 Type 2 (silver pinback) - Low 4029/High 7020 Type 3.1 (bronze pinback numbered) - Low 9050/High 9060 Type 3.2 (bronze pinback unnumbered - unawarded "escapee"?) The current (ugly) bronze pinback is quite uncommon (close to "rare"?), although they are out there. They are clearly being awarded. When I was in UB, I saw television news coverage of interviews with recent recipients after a bestowal ceremony (all in Mongolian, so working from images only here); all recipients were clearly wearing the bronze varieties.

It is one of the contemporary, but unissued, Sukhbaatar badges. Many of these seem to be unfinished or flawed, and come unnumbered. Ugly, unissued, but real. But compared to a real SB, it is very sad indeed.

And some of the old statues are still there, for reuse as needed. This, in Moscow.

Among the scarcest. Few to Mongolians, mostly to Soviets and other COMENCON friends.

Actually VERY nasty scans from my on-the-road portable scanner (Canon N650U). Better than nothing, but only BARELY. Thanks anyway, USAF!

The Order of the Polar Star

The Order of Combat Valor

Order of the Red Banner of Labor

Order of the Red Banner of Combat Valor

The Order of Sukhbaatar