Ed_Haynes

See, Chris? See??

Yes, please. Among gentlemen, just snarling "fake" isn't good enough.

Chistian, what was the "official" reason for Brezhnev for being awarded the Order of the Victory, except that he liked medals a lot?

Wasn't that enough??

I like the idea. Let me think.

Thanks for posting this. Any content or just pictures, names, and "values"? And how many pages, Kevin?

Jan is, of course, absolutely correct. To call the Polar Star "chaotic" may well be the understatement of the century. And while I'd like to think the availability of award rolls will help in soring it out, I cannot have such ambitious hopes.

And with the LG date you can get the recommendation from the National Archives (also PRO). But this will require actually doing research, looking it up, printing it out. And these days, so many expect everything to be free and easy and on the internet!

Oh no, Heiko!!!

Our nightmare situation!!

Our sympathies are with you and let us know what we can do to help!!

Dr. Herfurth noted in his small booklet, that the medal is fixed with a needle ...

Once again, Herfurt is wrong. Who knows what he based his statements on?

Lemme echo Ed's comments that we should not get into any forum wars and live peacefully with eachother. Each one makes his bed and each one lies in it... And everyone is comfy as he pleases yes!

to all collectors wherever they are......

Well said, Jim.

But, especially, (the closest I could get to "three cheers and a tiger" ) to the good crowd HERE.

Sorry, I really made that one too easy. Not knowing much about architecture and personalities, I was so excited to actually have won one of these through mundane knowledge/guessing regharding awards that I rushed a question out in my excitement. Knew someone would answer it soon. I just didn't expect it would be so soon: Just over one hour from posting to answer!

Correct, of course, Christian!

And you have already given us your question.

No, I do not have one of these badges. Two were awarded, and only three were produced. And the two that have been seen are both screwback (like the one shown).

No restrictions, any Army will do.

The forum is "Heer & Waffen SS Uniforms & Personal Equipment" though?

Assume this is restricted to 3R German, so I have nothing to add. Have found very interesting stuff in British and Indian Army pockets . . . .

OK, this will be way too easy and I am NOT happy with it, but . . .

We all known that out colleagues who "do" German awards are overly and perhaps perversely fixated on the backsides, rears, rumps, back sides, whatevers of their awards. Dismissing what that may say about them and their predelictions, we also may want to direct some attention to backsides of our awards.

What award is this? (Some very modest "image-fiddling" has been done.)

Forget the armored car, show us the medals show us the medals !

Whatever the original owner last wore. Which is why so many are 1930s.

These are "award biographies," and give a sense of LIVING.

Rick is right, but I personally prefer bars without Nazi "stuff" (including the Hindy Cross).

Or, as I said, pre-1914. But so few, so few, of those. And research possibilities are limited.

Thanks for the book references, Gordon. They go onto the bibliography list of things to look for. I still follow the advice I started out with of "books and journals first, medals later on". (Even though I cannot read a word of Hungarian-- doesn't matter!)

And happy to be the Common Denominator, me!

No, Rick. The UNCOMMON denominator, someone with broad interests! Thanks for that!

C'mon, we're not THAT bad, Chris. All we do is adopt a shorthand based on the accepted (even if not always linguistically accurate) English version of the name. We are just lazy typists. Our cousins over in German imperial have adopted an arcane set of formulae intended to confuse and alienate the novice. Not us!

Clarifying . . . .

Watch this space . . . .

Not to suggest that this is the case here, or in similar cases, but I know of cases where medals turned up for sale (or in collections), the families cried "stolen", the medals were recovered and restored to the families (sometimes at considerable loss to the collector), and a few months later the same medals were up for sale again.

While there are surely thefts-to-order to acquire high-end material, sometimes with a little homicide thrown in for good measure, there are also other scenarios possible. And in today's new capitalist Russia, anything is possible.

Nice, Gerd. But "not interested in the research"?!?!?!

Really, a very lovely piece of history. It isn't the "things", it is the history, after all!

Thanks for sharing!

His story (and that of his family): http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=4129&st=15 and following posts.

Be warned: History is powerful stuff.

His medals: