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    Ed_Haynes

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    1. Well, I purchased them several years back. They are now in my collection. They are not for sale, though some day I may sort out duplicates when they will be listed in the appropriate sub-section of the forum.
    2. Even someone "outside The Club" would be interested in this!! And in the days before Excel!!
    3. Which medals haven't been designed by "committees"???
    4. Yet you do not wish to attribute an ideological motivation .... Valid? Off to my dictionary .... Won't even try to discuss the AHF here. If for no other reasoin, . They had their agenda, which wasn't Hitler's. And after Stalingrad it was moot. (Hitler lost there.)
    5. Thanks. I am just far more familiar with the compliacted debates over the status and conditions of service regarding the Free Indian Army (Azad Hind Fauj). Somehow, I had assumed Franco might have played the same defensive game that Bose did. Maybe I overestimated Franco.
    6. Ah . . . these "Azul" people were part of the Wehrmacht, not the Spanish Army (the wore their breast eagle, after all). This would make a difference, as they served in a foreign army (unless some serious diplomacy was involved).
    7. Maybe the legend would help? But most of our Russian readers have vanished. Let me ask off-forum.
    8. At least she wasn't wearing it as a medal, claiming it as hers. There is, of course, the old tradition of Victorian campaign medals being transformed by relatives and recipients into brooch pins, napkin rings, watch-fobs, necvktie pins, and even in an earlier era scarf rings. Many "helpful" dealers have re-transformed them into medals in recent decades. The ethical and phaleristic complexities here are numerous.
    9. Ah, yes. Possibly. Why would folks pose around it? Just something vertical to focus attention? (Be quiet, Dr. Freud . . . .)
    10. Pencil legend on the reverse (enhanced for legibility). Thanks in advance!
    11. As time and stamina allow, I am going through my collection and working on the cataloging (my wife calls it "playing with my collection", but she must be wrong?). The Tolkachev group -- see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5053 -- has a number of photos, mostly from April and May 1945. This shows a group of Tolkachev's buddied in front of a monument. Any bells ring, anyone?
    12. Won't quibble over words. It is allowed by regulations. What is done in Australia if three grandchildren all want to wear grandad's gongs, do they all go out and have "replica" groups concocted? I agree 110% with Megan here.
    13. As time and stamina allow, I am going through my collection and working on the cataloging (my wife calls it "playing with my collection", but she must be wrong?). The Tolkachev group -- see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5053 -- has a number of photos, mostly from April and May 1945 that show destroyed tanks, presumably German. I know absolutely nothing about armor (or even armour) and need help. And and all comments will help to educate me. Tanks in advance!
    14. People, these days, say this a lot, but no one has ever presented any evidence supporting this (sad) policy and it seems to be not at all true. Only the recipient has any right to wear his (her) medals. You wonder where this myth came from? It is commonly done in Australia, for example. Doesn't make it legitimate, though.
    15. According to their catalogue (Lot 802 in their 12 December 2008 sale), the non-British awards are:
    16. That is indeed what it seems to be. You, being dead, will have no opportunity to wear a medal. And your next-of-kin won't either, so why not a table ornament?
    17. While it is this is the "short group" of miniatures of George VI, as sold by Morton & Eden (with reasonably solid attribution and provenence) in their December 2008 sale. Several oddities there.
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