Ed_Haynes

Only natural... the guys have been collecting Mongolian for 10 or so years.... all of a sudden there is a new Forum...

I am not sure many outside of Mongolia have been collecting that long in any serious fashion.

Still, many good points here. Someone could do a sociology, or psychology, or even economics study of Mongolian phaleristics?

For a thread on the Hungarian Zalka M?t? Commemorative Medal 1956, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=19808

Sudan Medal

Bronze. The 1918-1922 variety, awarded by Husain Kamil

Sudan Medal

Bronze. The 1910-1917 variety, awarded by Abbas II Hilmi.

Sudan Defence Force Long Service and Good Conduct Medal

Established in 1933 and awarded to enlisted members of the force for eighteen years of service with good conduct.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Now GOTTA get that service record and such.

Thanks.

Nope. Not Algerian, Tunisian. Never guess when jetlagged:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachid_Sfar

He would have been Minister of Defence in 1981.

The document; the award spread.

The document; the name page spread.

Previously mentioned in

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3196&st=14

Thanks to a good Forum Friend, I now have a documented specimen, awarded (I would guess) to an Algerian (being in French and guessing who would be friendly enough with Bulgaria in 1981 to get one, though research looms).

The medal, with quirky mounting.

1948 the stamp and written out unit abbreviations.

Sorry, Rick,I am confused, well I am jetlagged, but I am confused too. What do you want?

Thanks (as always) for the help!

KB:

(Pretty smudged!)

Victory Germany:

Warsaw:

Caucasus:

Council of Ministers Prize Medal

Created in 1981, this is the early type with stamped serial number (most are engraved), #0245.

State Prize Medal

The single-class successor to the Stalin Prize and the three-class State Prize. This one is said to date from the 1970s-1980s, #7584.

We have (by implication) a thread that touches on the Lenin Prize

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=18407

and one focused on the Stalin Prize

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=17932

but what about the others?

As badly documented as they are, maybe we can contribute something.

Thanks, Rick. As the group is right here, of which stamps would you want to see better scans?

As a published author, I can tell you factually, that you cannot publish a book of colored images of medals on glossy stock for $15.00 and a run of only 10 copies. I discussed this with OMSA.

Well, it does happen. I know this for a fact and have several projects going with the publisher.

Maybe the OMSA doesn't know. Given the opportunity, I shall surely explore this with them.

I completed a project on the above about three years ago. The work has been compiled by several contributing authors/collectors, that are experts in their fields. It has been photographed and mensurated in both digital as well as traditional photographic processes. At a cost of roughly US100.00 per copy to publish a run of 500 to 1,000 this would need a minimum investment of $50,000 to $100.000. Any suggestions you may offer will be greatly appreciated.

Dick LaTondre

I know a publisher who will do as few as 10-20 copies, within a few weeks, at no cost to you, and sell for as little as $15.

And has this been discussed with the OMSA?

Thanks for this, Paul. And welcome.

As there is so little on this conflict from any side and even less that seems in any way balanced and reliable, I would hope we'd have space on the analytical table for a range of sources. It would however be nice to see sources that cited their own sources, but that is a widely shared problem and few who choose to be involved in the discussion seem to be able to go beyond shouting/saying, loudly and confidently, that what they Believe to be True is In Fact True. While we may yet be too close in time for any balanced historical view, it would be interesting to see, someday.

Interesting, Alexei. Thanks!

Hard to tell sometimes how someone will age, but . . . .

Detailed textual information and serious research, not just lovely images. Actually, what we need is a high quality (English-language or bllingual) book in four volumes on Chinese awards (1- Imperial, 2- early republic and warlords, 3- PRC, and 4- Taiwan).