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E 10 -- The Honored Border Guard Badge

E 12 -- The Glory of the Border Guard The star is just 30 mm.

E 22 -- Border Forces Unit 0101: Immigration Office

E 21 -- Border Forces Unit 0131

E 20 -- The Legendary 24th Unit Khalkhgol We need to know MUCH more about these pesky numbered units!

E 19 -- Engineer Border Guard An impressive 55 mm.

F 23 -- The Best Student of Civil Protection

F 15 -- Police Academy

I can dig some out and add weights. But there are two cautions: 1- I am becoming increasingly distrustful of the Polar Star typology we have evolved here. As records of serial number ranges expand, I think there are simnply pockets of minor sub-sub-sub-variations, essentially manufacturing "noise" that say nothing of the history of the award and may or may not be of any interest, even to the most compulsive type collector. When I get brave, I shall stick my neck out and propoise an alternative typology; I just wish I had more documented award dates to overlay some chronology. 2- Weights can so easily be altered by the very common shortening of the length of the screw post, more common on things like the Polar Star (in part due to the very large numbers awarded). We can take the screw plate off (though I think these are of fairly standard weights), but can do nothing about shortened screwplates that make much more difference in weight.

Fascinating. There was been a post-socialist proliferation of such awards, often festooned with fake jewels. There are several reported and several unreported governmnt ministry awards in this category too.

Sure, I know (and enjoy ) the prevailing bias against labor awards. Just wanted to point out that there were something like five times the Glory 1 awards as there were Labor Glory 1 awards. Stay away from those nasty labor awards, mates . . .

T NIB 01 -- Mongolian Red Cross: ?Niguulsel? Silver Medal See their website: http://www.redcross.mn/english/awards.html

I 17 -- Soviet Union - Mongolia The "textbook" variety of these extremely variable badges.

H 11 -- Mongolia

B 32 -- Veteran of the Revolutionary Struggle

B 40 -- Choibalsan

C 46 -- Zuunbayan, 366 Unit Fine, but what IS this??

C 50 -- The Outstanding Worker of Defence

C 53 -- The Outstanding Worker of the Defence Auxiliary Society

C 42 -- Glory of Veteran Two (signifantly?) different varieties.

C 54 -- Defence Auxiliary Society Just 30 x 22 mm.

C 32 -- Air Force Pin Deapite Battushig's description, these look like air force wings to me. The center of this specimen presents many puzzles, as it is either been abraded or something has fallen off. Whatever it is, it is the firct class of it. Mysteries persist.

C 36 -- 60 Years of the Mongolian People's Army (1921-81)

According to The Bible, we are looking at: Glory 1 - ~ 3743 awarded Labor Glory 1 - ~714 awarded Enough said? The numbers may not be gospel, but they are a guide.

G 09 -- 80 Years of the Firefighting Organization, 1922-2002 Has an unusually attractive reverse!