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Posts posted by Ed_Haynes
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So much so, it seems, that it is now possible to issue duiplicate award cards.
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Through the triumps of socialist economic planning through the wisdonm of Lenin and Stalin, the stamp-pad ink shortage is reversed, a bit.
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20 GPW.
Wherever he was, it will soon become evident that there were SEVERE post-war shortages of ink for their stamp pads. Obvious capitalist plotting.
There IS a stamp there, but illegible in real life and unredeemable even by scan-tweaking.
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Closeum on the (non-)stamp
and signature area.
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OK, here we go . . .
Victory Over Germany
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What else can I say:
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It is nice when you see these stories link up. Another way of restoring the lost history to the "things".
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Thanks, Kim. And, again, thanks for letting me adopt these.
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More later . . . .
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And (while I have a suspicion what this is).
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Inside (and the text continues).
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No reason (or is there?) to show the document for his jubilee OPW 2 (#3507387).
Before moving on to selections from familiar documents (interesting, perhaps, only for the stamps and scribbled notations above the signatures?), let me show two documents I don't know.
First:
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The Red Banner of Labor.
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Next page spread.
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The document for his Red Star.
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And the third page (thereafter it goes off into 3 pages of regulations).
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The first page spread. Pretty faded. The medal number, at the bottom of the right-hand page, is 5958.
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Just to add his documents, a few at a time, I start with the very early, very tattered, and (to me at least) very interesting document for the MISSING bravery medal.
The outside.
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Lieutenant Vladimir Sidorovich Pokusov
in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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And back during the years just after the GPW, even medal cards for Bengrade suffered the same ink-challenged fate.