Ed_Haynes

My meagre offering:

Just a trivial little group to add in here. (And I flipped the ribbon bar when scanning !)

Oh - Oh - Thanks for sharing

Not very scientific, but . . .

My Order of Labor is on the way!

I can't wait...

William

They are really REALLY nice. Sheh-sheh Tang Zi!!

Treat it nice.

There is. Same exact stuff.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4434&hl=wieprich

Thanks, Daniel. I was distrusting my memory!

Wasn't there a thread once on the Wieprich badge once or am I mistaken?

That was my thought too???

As most of these weren't gazetted, they are hard to trace.

The way it should look (my uncle's):

Yes on, on US Army Good Conduct Medal ribbon (not contemporary). Quite a "mule".

This guy comes from the wrong side of the Soviet and Eastern Block .... apart from being born and executed within.

OK, guess that makes him deserving of "special attention" in this thread?

If you are right Jim, how is it that he belongs as a part of this thread?

And, Dave, I think if we could deduce the story there, we might know more about these anniversary badges. I love puzzles!

Thanks to both of you!

As I recall, there was a very good piece on this medal in the JOMSA some years back. Let me look . . . .

The first variety was painted rather than enameled, and that variety is heavily faked.

David Harris' fine "A Guide to Military Temperance Medals" (the OMRS publication alluded to above) shows this as RATA.6 (p. 53), the Royal Army Temperance Association medal for 6 years of temperance (oooooffff), awarded for British troops in India. The hallmark is the lion, indicating manufacture in India. The correct ribbon is 38 mm, white edges with a 18-mm red center stripe.

Thank you for sharing the photos. There is one that is not coming in though(boat).

Yeah, one of the problems of using image hosting rather than posting normally to the forum.

This is indeed an odd one, and one I'd be careful with. The number is at the super-high end of the "cross" variety (our working type 1.3), but it sure doesn't look enameled to me (seems pretty surely a type 1.1). The numbering style seems strange too.

This medal is being faked and this may well be one of those?

A better image (though not great), Medal of Courage, 3rd degree.

True. It is almost impossible to say anything from the scans presented. Moreover, it it hard to tell what relationship the thread title has to these awards.

Help???

Not our specific area but maybe of some interest, and in a forum where I suspect most of us would never look.

A cross-reference: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16967

I remember being dubious about the handwriting of the serial number on the doc.

Upon close inspection, now that you have it in your hands Ed, what do you think?

To my eyes and my magnifying lens, it seens (1) contemporary and (2) close enough to match other writing on the document. I do find the award of this badge as late as September 1973 to be odd but, being Mongolia, stranger things have happened.

Thanks!

From the Kravchenko group. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6207 Unfortunately mis-mounted on the usual Soviet all-purpose red ribbon.

Identification, please???

And can someone show (or help me get) the real thing?

From the Kravchenko group. http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6207 Unfortunately mis-mounted on the usual Soviet all-purpose red ribbon.

Can someone show (or help me get) the real thing?