Ed_Haynes

The national language of Pakistan, the language in which the legends on these medals and clasps is written.

Hey, all you need to do is read Urdu. No biggie.

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Interesting, and looks quite good to me too. The Tamgha-i-Diffa (General Service Medal) is for Siachen Glacier, the most recent (and rarest) of the clasps for this medal. Nice things you have.

OK, let me try . . . . When medals have been approved, and maybe authorised, but not issued, military tailors fill the gaps by making medals that are (approximately) in the right design and selling them to serving personnel who want to (or have been told to) mount up their medals. This is especially the case when contemporary medals are issued unnamed (as they are in Pakistan). As far as I know, the Badr Medal has not been officially issued, though your specimen looks very good and may well be legitimate. It would be the first I have seen. Maybe the Pakistani Mint has been hard at work? (Or the tailors are making better copies?) Tailors' copies are available in Pakistan, quite easily, at Rs. 30 or Rs. 40 each (approximately $0.60 US). These FLOOD e$cam. Most of your medals, "ilja599", look good. I'd like a closeup on your General Service Medal (Tamgha-i-Diffa) as the clasp is unclear. I assume all are unnamed? I have never seen a tailor's copy named for a Pakiatni medal, though Indian military tailors have started offering naming services for their patrons ( ). The naming you show looks like normal nbaming for a Pakistan Medal 1947 ("Independence Medal"). These are the only Pakistani medal to have been routinely named. (Blast!)

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are asking. Do you want identifications? Would like to help, but . . . ?????

About the same as that of the workers.

At the risk of unleashing more trouble, here is one I seem to have forgotten to post here. Iurii Anderivich Vol'vin See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=7767 and following posts.

Came with a patch, and while I don't "do" patches, here it is too anyway:

May we post Chechen awards here? Order of Schamil Not much known, but in two classes. Named after Schamil, one of the anti-Russian Chechen leaders of the nineteenth centuiry. Screwbacked, with a slightly "Soviet" feel, but of fairly light construction. See other Chechen awards at http://www.syrtash.com/showgallery.php?cat=561

Closeup on the recipient.

Interior, part 2. Oddly, it seems to be a 31 October 1966 document, the same date as what I always assume to be the inside-the-front-covber next-of-kin inscription? Some (though I guess they don't frequent this forum) may question the photo, but it seems legit (and is over-stamped) to me.

The interior spread, part 1, with the next-of-kin entry (31 October 1966).

The badge.

An interesting unnumbered screwback (type 1.2) documented (in Cyrillic!) set.

Q 04 -- One Million Hours Flight Pilot Badge

Interior 2 - awarded 9 July 1981.

Interior 1

Reverse, # 5050.

New documented medal: Type 2.2 (B # A 28.1).

The chief change in the 6th edition was the (unfortunate) removal of Gordon's name and substitution of new authors on the title page, the adoption of a large format (the older editions were normal-book sized, the 6th could be used as a coffee table, not just lie on one), and the welcomed (by me at least) removal of the quaint, jovial racism that infested earlier editions. While I have not seen this new edition, I am told that there will be significant improvements. I know, for example, that a number of collectors of medals to Indians (like myself) submitted loads of corrections and expansions for the last edition that were ignored, although it did remove some (but not all) of Gordon's denigration of medals to Indians. I have been assured by one of the authors of this edition that these and newer changes will be integrated this time around; we shall see. Personally, I have great hopes for this new 7th edition, though I do wish they had restored Gordon's name to some place on the title page (and I gather thay have not).

And ?30 for airmail postage to the US. Shall report when in hand.

The new -- and long-delayed -- 7th edition of British Battles and Medals is due out in late November ("for holiday giving"). Some 800 pages and (ouch) ?85. Dixon and other dealers can supply it as can, I assume, Spink (the publisher). A must-have (of course). Hopes are that it will be improved.

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