Ed_Haynes

Here's a 1961 document for a Best Sportsman badge, 2nd class (W 24b).

Just got word of another brutal robbery in Ulanbaatar, apparently focused on awards.

Hero of Labor 16

Sukhbaatar 166

Avoid these like the plague!

A recent successor? Honorary Badge of Labor.

Thanks, Christian! Finally, some good news regarding the contemporary Russian trend toward historical amnesia.

For a better flag reference site than Wikipedia, see: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru_wwii.html and http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su%5Evctry.html

And a closeup of the 2nd class (one of the first observed badges of that class). Possibly 4th grade?

Not a great image, sorry.

Has ANYONE ever seen any photo of any of these in wear? Would probably be more likely come from pre-WWI Russia than from Mongolia??

The interior spread.

Document for T NIB 06 -- Badge "Ready for the Defence of Cleanliness" (see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10227&st=30 above). A careful translation of teh certificate might tell us more about this badge?

And another to the same comrade (Gombosuren). (Too large to scan easily.)

And some big, gaudy, socialist realist art deco things.

And interior 2. Translation requests going out soonest.

Interior 1. What looks to me like 9 November 33 (= 1943).

The man. (Can you discern the basis of my interest here?)

An early Mongol bichig dosument, missing the cover. But still potentially interesting.

Less than 100% certain regarding the photo, though, but still interesting.

Interesting differences here Ed... Especially given that the simpler one seems to pre-date the hard-bound one.

Yes, Rick. Much to sort out. Need to get all these documents in front of me all at once.

But the faces . . . the FACES . . . Mongolian history in images?!

The whole issue of which Yugoslavian awards were numbered and which were not numbered must rank high among the many things we still need to learn? I am very confused!

Wow. One more addiction. Welcome to a branch office of the asylum!

Award page. An award on 18 February 1964 (!).

Close-up.

Photo page.

Latest document, missing cover.

And the same document as an interesting linguistic "mule" (mixed Cyrillic and Mongol Bichig) from about three months before, 6 February 1998.

Inside. 13 May 1998.

Document for T 26 [sic. = 30], Blood Donor, Mongolian Red Cross.

Cover.

I am not sure that the rolls were available in Payne's day, but they are today.

I believe the medals from his collection, as they have passed down across the generations, have (mostly) been verified as research has become possible and more normal. Remember, he was buying mostly from the veterans themselves or from their sons/daughters.

Due to his collecting interests (and mine), I have no "Ex-Payne Collection" items. He carefully avoided medals to Indians, having no sources in the country. Almost makes me wish I did have that link!

A new high for type 2.2 (and my first of this variety ) -- 5392