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OK, I have been TRYING to make some sense (any sense) of these school diamonds. I have put together some notes (OK, 75 pages of "notes") on these things, trying to get us beyond what Battushig gives us. So far, I have relied mainly on things that live with me, and I have yet to weave in contributions by good forum friends. That will be the next step, together with sending the file off for comment and critique by Those More Expert.

In the interim, the preliminary (and BIG, some 4.7 megs) PDF file can be seen at:

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/SchoolDiamonds.pdf

Comments begged . . . .

The Order of Polonia Restituta from Poland is on the WRONG ribbon.

Doc

All the foreign awards are -- as is common for the Soviet bottom-row practice -- on incorrect ribbons.

Just took a look at the auction and realized it was only for the foreign bar. That is either: 1 - very sad that someone broke up the group or 2 - someone is very enterprising and is selling a duplicate set of foreign awards as none of the s/ns will be traceable. Both options are.....

Right . . .

Desecration.

Yowie!!

M NIB 02 -- 80 Years of Trade, 1921-2001

A successor to M 10, but no longer "Socialist Trade".

You know, i agree completely, Ed. Just out of couriousity, as this won?t leave me anytime soon, what would a Red Star be worth with such a Research? I myself would pay probably 100-120 Dollar,but would i get one for this price?

As mine have come from a fellow forumite or similar sources, I really don't know open market value. Sorry.

Ohhhh . . . nice one . . . especially when you realise that "wounded" would likely have been "wounded into many many small pieces" -- doubt if many in his role survived too long

Thats true, Dave. This was obviously a very lucky shot.

Gerd

But the thing is that if you never research them, then you'll never know.

For the medal, see: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8627&st=39

Yes indeed one, i could save from Ed?s paws After all the soviet awards for Afhganistan he posted, i already was conviced, there won?t be much to come for us other collectors.

I look forward to Vavenko?s citation.

No . . . they're all mine . . . all mine . . . mine . . . my preciousssss(es)!

Feel free to post scan, Dave. I wanna see it too.

Thanks Ed, for the comment .

In fact, I bought the special photo ticket. It did not prevent the Babushkas to come to me every 10 meters when they saw me taking photos. But when they see the bracelet, they just returned to their chair...

Ch.

Pretty much my experience too, even with ticket the ravenous babushka hordes made pictures a hassle (and a half).

Thanks, Tang Si! That must be the rarest of the rare?

Nice photos. You were lucky, as they were very cranky regarding photos when I was there. But most of the medals on display were fake anyway. Lovely building, interesting displays, phoney medals.

V NIB 08 -- VII Shockworker Young Man

A variant of V 17, for the 7th Five-Year Plan, 1986-90.

I 35 -- Cuba-Mongolia Friendship

I 19 - Soviet Union-Mongolia Friendship

B 47 -- Sukhbaatar