Ed_Haynes

U 22 and U 23 -- MPO (gold and silver)

The bronze badge (U 24) is shown above.

U 10 -- Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

Two varieties.

S 34 -- The Council of Mongolian Craftsmen

The "red brother" of S 35, shown above.

S NIB 11 -- Mongolian Circus

A variant of S NIB 06, shown above.

Q NIB 04 -- MIAT Badge

A very cute little MIAT badge!

B NIB 05 -- MPRP Pin

A nice modern/recent badge.

B 45 -- Sukhbaatar

To complete "the set".

H NIB 08 -- Mongolian Flag

Has a very "modern" feel to it. "Post-Socialist"?

H NIB 07 -- Mongolian Flag

H 29 -- Socialist Friendship

Personally, I especially like the design here!

I guess this could be seen as a category "I" badge too??

H 28 -- Soviet Union-Mongolia

Also shown by Battushig as I 03.

H NIB 06 -- Soyombo

A variant ("mule"?) of H 27.

H 27 -- Soyombo

H 25 -- 40 Years of the MPR

H 22 -- Soyombo

H 10 -- Mongolia

Quite a group! Both OPW and MM.

You tease us, Dave, with goodies from your forthcoming JOMSA piece. Can't wait!!

You need to work on your photo ID skills, mate!

Marvelous information, Sam. Thank you, mate!!

Here's a nice MC group coming up at the next DNW auction (lot 90), to Lieutenant-Colonel J. W. Malcolm, Royal Army Medical Corps. Estimate? ?2000-2500.

More mundane MC groups in the ?600 range (but one very nice two-bar WWI MC group).

I might add to this a reference to the excellent article by Owain Raw-Rees, "Palestinian Awards," Journal of the Orders and Medals Society of America 55, 3 (May-June 2004): 2-12. While the journal got a load of flak for publishing this, this is first-rate work, and a good compilation of all we know to date on the awards of Palestine.

Yes, looks pre-WWI. Nepali-made, of course. Weren't they all, pre-1947? I know some of the post-1947 ones are made in India, but not all. Cant' say how those unfortunates that remained in British service get theirs.

Very similar to many that I saw in the National Museum (in Kathmandu). Somewhere, I may have some pictures.

Thanks, Gilbert. Abbot and Tamplin (more reliable than MYB) show:

WWI - Services in the Field:

MC - 37,081

1st bar - 2,983

2nd bar - 168

3rd bar - 4

WWI - Services in Connection with the War:

MC - 23

1st bar - 1

2nd bar - 1

1920-39:

MC - 349

1st bar - 31

WWII:

MC - 10,386

1st bar - 482

2nd bar - 24

1947-79:

MC - 643

1st bar - 20

I don't have readily available the post-1979 awards, but darn few.

WWI MC's seem to more in abundance than WWII... is there a reason for that?

They were much more common in WWI than in WWII. Someplace (at home, I am now at work), I have the comparative numbers. Anyone care to drag out Abbot and Tamplin and answer this?

Nevertheless, these things might actually exist somewhere as more than drawings on a website (though many such fantasy awards do not), and might pop up some day to confuse people. For this reason, collecting informtion on them is valuable, just so long as we don't get misled about what they are and what they are not.