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Posts posted by Ed_Haynes
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A nice start to a typology. Thanks!!
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I wish I wish I wish. But most current Afghan military types don't DARE wear their real ribbons, as they date from the Elder Days. PDRA types have to keep their service very silent.
How I wish, mate, how I wish!
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Stretch? S . . . t . . . r . . . e . . . t . . . . . SNAP!
Clearly, no one knows, no one cares,
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Ed?? Uniforms???
What is that old song? "When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near"?
Hoping to get two uniforms to match up with Mongolian medal groups I have, so am I forgiven??
Have some Soviet ones too, some posted out in public, others in secret.
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Wisdom, please. (On something pretty marginal to my interests.)
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Label, inside (wearer's) left breast pocket.
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Collar tab closeup.
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Going through some long-forgotten closets, some even-longer-forgotten things surface.
Comments?
(Apologies for the "soft porn" of the mannequin.
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it's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. Different initials, same "organ."
Well . . . on one side, it still has the same initials, Rick.
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No name label?
Have done everything buy disassemble the tunic but . . . no.
A half-cigarette in one of the pockets, though. So maybe DNA testing??
The awards must be pretty distinctive, but my research skills with natives (of the British Isles) are limited.
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Oh . . . sorry. Contemporary. Post-Taliban. Karzai era. Shall be VERY collectible for the next generation?
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Given my interests, the main attraction lies in the ribbons and in the medal group they represent. Can't have been many ca. 19348 RAOC captains with WWI MM, 1914 Star and clasp, MiD, service in India, GV jubilee, and a LSGC?
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What I think (?) is the abortive 1938 blue patrol, for a RAOC captain. Unform went away with the war.
Not 100% sure the collar badges are original.
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And. Indications of some fast promotions? Not surprising, I guess.
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Not as if anyone cares as much as I do, but here are a few more photos.
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There are, I believe, a number or privately designed and privately produced "Cold War" commemorative medals, from various manufacturers, filling this "gap". While there is a sort of quasi-official "nod" to this one, it is among that vast swamp of unofficial "commemorative" medals for those who feel they need just one more to pump up their chests.
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Thanks for this, "sabrigade". We need to record such information before the memories fade.
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Right-oh, the Garaj Star.
See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14729
The "Suraksha" clasp for the Special Service Medal covers "Blue Star", but the Garaj Star is just for "Black Thunder". A very restricted issue.
I have it on good authority that some day a book will be issued that addresses this rarity. Amost always, it is just worn on the ribbon bar, but some very brave (= foolish) folks.
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Interesting, if somewhat scary, numbers. Thanks for tracking this, Bob.
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While his honorary award probably wasn't gazetted, I've looked, but the recent revision of the online London Gazette makes searching a worse nightmare than it was before.
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Important wisdom here, Jeff. Thanks!
Sometimes "collectors" forget how the world functions?
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For the record, Eugene has already contacted me. I look forward to posting the goodies when they're in hand.
We all know that "things" happen.
Let us, however, please, try to leave squabbles from other fora out of our discussions here. Please.
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People can call themselves what they want to. It won't make it legal or kosher.
Ed
First Death-Lord of Pluto
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Well, there's Cuba too, or so I am told.
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Transfering posts to correct threads
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Shifting posts is quite tricksy, and things can easily get lost. Well done!
This moderation stuff is time-consuming, more than some may know.
Ed