Ed_Haynes

I am not sure what to do with collective farm badges. While an argument could be made for putting them into the swamp that is the world of the provincial/aimag badges, they'd be lost there. The aimag badges need a good sorting out, someday, soon, . . . . For the time being, I'll put a few new collective farm badges up here, subject to future recataloging?

Here follow a few NIBs -- well not actually "NIBs", more like "CWBs" ("Confirmed with Battushig"):

J NIB 03 -- Battsengel Soum, Ulaan Tug (Red Flag) Collective Farm

F NIB 08 -- Police of the Baganuur District of Ulaanbaatar

I guess this belongs here rather than lost in the swamp of aimag badges?

Here follow a few NIBs -- well not actually "NIBs", more like "CWBs" ("Confirmed with Battushig"):

K NIB 01 -- 50 Years of the Light and Food Industry

S NIB 05 -- 50-year Anniversary of Culture and Sport Movement

Not quite sure where to put this, so why not here . . . .

S NIB 04 -- State People's Song and Dance Ensemble

R NIB 13 -- People's Education, Teacher 60 Years

R NIB 12 -- 50 Years of the Pedagogical College

Group reunification is a noble and necessary goal. Good luck with all!

Awarded 29 April 1999.

When we can get research done, these could be very interesting awards.

With document, the new plastic kind.

A new arrival. Type 2.1, # 1046.

According to Wikipedia: Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко

And -- and, Rick, please correct me if I am wrong -- any real talk of "1st class", 2nd class", or "3rd class" is no more than marketing spin, unrooted in history?

Why? The research takes the same amount of effort and time (on average) for one item or 500?

Honestly, I can't imagine having anything -- even a lowly single Red Star -- without at least trying to extract research. For me, it isn't the "things", it is the "history", and history = research. While I can't say that every research request has been successful (and some seem to have gone astray and I need to resubmit my requests), I keep asking and asking and some day, maybe, . . .

Sorry, you touched a fanatic nerve here.

Ah . . . I have a cunning plan . . . assemble a breeding population?

(Sorry. It doesn't work. I have tried it with other awards. )

Nice discovery, Eric! It is always nice to add new pieces into the puzzle, even if it does make life more difficult. Congratulations!

Actually, Bob, from what I have learned here in these threads about the Tammy, I think the order is really pretty straightforward. It is all about a mix of economics (the remarkable inventiveness of capitalism), psychology (how far folks will go to aggrandize their egos), political history (how concocted "States" can advertise themselves by awarding equally concocted orders), and sociology (the inter-war quest for some scrap of glory in a defeated Germany). Once you realize there is no order to this order and focus on the human factors (see above), it gets very interesting, but in non-phaleristic ways.

I am not even sure the Algan Gadas ("Polar Star") will be that complex phaleristically, once we get it sorted out. As you know, that is and will be quite a puzzle. Hooray! But I am afraid it won't have the rather sad human factors seen with Old Tammy and her boys.

Two down, just nine (plus) to go! Well done, Alan!!

We have a duty to at least TRY to reunify these split groups. I know of three cases in the last year of reunifying Indian 1914-15 Star WWI trios, one medal at a time. And, if I have joy in an upcoming auction, I shall be reunitying two of (I think) six medals to another IA chap. Bidding six times what it should be may do the trick? (Ouch!)

Still, . . . !

When the website is up, we can speak publically. Until then we do not, I think, have the right to trumpet what could be difficult facts.

Oh . . .

Not cheap!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/096...1008164-4793449

OY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agree completely, Jim. Once broken, the groups will stay broken up except in extraordinary circumetances of great luck. As far as those collectors and dealers who tear groups apart, . . .

Though it does make you wonder wistfully where the single medals in our collections came from? (Background sound of groups being ripped asunder.)

Thanks! Wisdom now moved into the collection catalogue.

Ion Timofeevich Nikitchenko

Major general of jurisprudence, Soviet justice on the court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Nikitchenko

V.Y. Pokrovsky

Deputy Soviet prosecutor.

Roman Rudenko

Chief Soviet prosecutor.

Alexander Volchkov

Alternate Soviet justice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Volchkov

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