Ed_Haynes

C 49 -- Unit 805 of the Interior Army

Numbered on the reverse, this #493.

Arguably, this could (should?) be listed in category "D", among interior badges?

C 38 -- Mongolian People's Army

For what??

C 48 -- Honorary Badge

Honorary WHAT??

D 07 -- 50 Years of the State Security Organization, 1922-72

D 20 -- 50 Years of the State Prosecution Organisation

D 14 -- 50 Years of the Special Committee, 1922-72

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.

But, it's a modern LABOR award. And there just isn't the same market for labor awards as there is for military ones. True, there's a quick market for republic and early Soviet labor awards, but it's just not the same for modern ones, even if the rarity would seem to dictate otherwise.

Dave

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

Awarded to individuals, special MRCS members, business enterprises and institutions as a mark of their significant contribution to the capacity building and development of the National Society and International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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