Ed_Haynes

Thanks for the heads-up.

He is, I believe, doing more and more imperial and less and less CCCP. A function of supply. As yet, no dark clouds have gathered over imperial awards (except the super-stratospheric stuff) they way they have over the Soviet things.

He is, in the final analysis, a businessman and will sell whatever he can get and whatever people (both in the Motherland and in the "West") want to buy. He even now has some Third Reich stuff!

He also has some considerable capital tied up in several super-high-end Soviet solo items and groups and, even for him, the basics of ECON 101 still apply.

So you guys think the group is "assembled"? Came from a good US dealer. Or so I had thought.

Unlike some of the earlier commemoratives (Constitution, Wedding Anniversary), there's no evidence that either Coronation was ever issued in gold/gilt. As Paul says, tarnish can be tricky.

As we've said before, the time draws near when we need a replacement reference book for Peterson (even in the 3rd edition).

And THERE, chirruns, we have the shining evidence of what happens when you wear your hair too long while YOUNG-- you use it all up!!!!!

Service records are very nice and neat-- presumably typed? Post up the two pager that has his postage stamp sized photo on the top left corner of the 2nd page-- that's the Concise Form one.

If you've got Lots & Lots, that means performance reviews, autobiographies etc etc.

Sorry, Rick, don't seem to have the concise one. Alas. Just the "long roll" (as they call it "at home").

Shall put up some pieces soonish.

And it is an almost-1-cm file.

Shall do so, for each, when in hand.

Need something for display in the off-to-college-absent-daughter-reclaimed collection space. (Pray -- to all the gods -- for me in this quest.)

Thanks, Rick. Anything you can offer will be more than I have. I know (full well) that translation is not a dream (sha-boop, sha-boop), and anytime you need a translation from Hindi feel free to ask . . . .

A really REALLY interesting question! While it is my long-term goal to get all the GPW campaign medals in fully documented gallantry groups, it is now the only one missing. While I have the medal , it is sadly and lonsesomely undocumented .

Rarer than we think??

These smaller LoH specimens have a long history. See recent M&E sales. I have always assumed these were smaller specimens (distinct from miniatures) made to serve a marker that wanted stylishly small medals, like the German "prinzen" stuff. Remember, in a system like most of continental Europe where the award is the piece of paper, you have to buy the medals on the open market and all the inventiveness of individualistic free-market manufacture is in play. We as collectors are left with the quandry as to what is a legitimate specimen and what isn't (unlike, say, the UK or USSR where all gongs are made centrally to standards and awarded as a tangible medal).

Different manufacturers, different personal taste?

Yes, a nice Type 2.2.

Thank you, Kevin.

Peterson says simply (p. 60): "Some medals are sharply struck, others are in very diffuse relief." Make of that what you will.

As I now have a, well, "personal involvement" here, can some kind soul please (beg, grovel) help with a translation of the full recommendation text. Thanks.

I am still learning in this field (thanks, all ), but this came what a reliable dealer.

And the birdie.

Sorry this has taken so long. I had to fetch it back from its home away from home.

The center.

And. (We all age, don't we?)

A truly lovely stack of service records are now in hand (thanks, Dave ), but untranslated. As I hate to take advantage of Rick's squinting skills, I'll see if I can get an "express translation" off-forum (though shall post the "juicy bits" if anyone is interested).

Meanwhile, just a face to go with the group. Does the term "thousand-meter stare" hold any meaning?

As you seem to be getting the Soviet addiction, Troy, it may be worth getting the Red Bible, McDaniel and Schmitt, while it can still be located at non-rare-book prices.

On account of some recent "uniform dabbling", I shall soon be adding some details of these two. Therefore, rescurrecting a long-moribund thread.

1- M1940-42 Commissar General of the NKVD Frontier Troops.

2- M1943 NKVD-NKGB Lieutenant uniform, "bottle boards".

And.

Just a few preliminary images. More to come.

Cisk is good, the local wine is great (though much of it pretty sweet for my taste), but Bajtra is better!

http://www.bajtra.com/

Nuth Al-Ma?rkat / Combat Medal

Awarded, obviously, mainly to Saudis, but some "allies" (like the US) got it too.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8284&st=04