Ed_Haynes

I think it is pretty clear:

--- all duplicate ("Д") awards are items that demand caution and care;

--- duplicate ("Д") campaign awards are fantasy.

Does that pretty much sum it up?

Ed - Kingdom stuff is very interesting...

I wonder, somewhat aloud, about some of the orders. I saw exemplars of all of the medals you show while I was in Afghanistan - none were generally more than 20.00 US. I was always told these were locally produced medals - hence their low price. And then there were those produced by European manufacturers. The quality on the later is much better.

Have you also run across this in collecting Afghan orders and medals, specifically for the Kingdom period?

Ansolutely! The higher classes of the Kingdom awards (especially in the 1930s and again in the 1950s-60s), were European made or Indian made, but most other stuff was locally produced. Will be posting more, kingdom, republic, and PDRA.

Thanks Ed!!! This is one I'll get BTW What is NA?

Best,

Doc

NA = [british] National Archives (the archive previously known as the Public Record Office) at Kew

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Wow, combat award for this conflict.... I don't think we've seen too many of these yet.

What was "combat" seems to have been a funny thing in Afghanistan:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11063

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11060

And, when we know more that we do presently:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10376

All my "guests"

Architecture (again)? Not medals?? Not even militaria??? Sure I don't know!!!!

I am speechless! I have been rendered into a mumbling mass infront of so many lovely groups.

Congratulations Ed!!! Fabulous!!!!

Jim

Thanks, Jim. But it isn't "me" or "my collection" -- it is the people whose medals (and history) I have as my temporary guests, until (and I hope a long time off) they move on to other hands. This is why we OWE these things and PEOPLE our efforts at RESEARCH!

All of this says much more about the mythic level to which York's feat has been elevated (thanks, Hollywood) than anything else. Interesting, though, I guess, . . . .

People can (and will) spin whatever tales they wish, especially if a sale (and no research) is in play.

Await word from those who know ... Jeff ... hello ... Jeff ....

I find it intresing that Putin has got rid of most Soviet Symbolism but as I remeber Putins first act in power was to bring back the Soviet National anthem

Order of Victory

No, he dropped it for something (musically nasty) written by Pushkin, but had to restore the old one (but with new words).

That's a very nice photo. Navy is still my favorite.

I have a book on the MOH published by the Arny around 1949. It says the medal is made of Silver. Anyone know if the unissued pieces are silver? Is the current MOH silver?

Dan

Silver-gilt most likely, never looked "silver".

Ed,

Where did you find your copy? I searched Amazon.com with no luck just his 2001 WWI service records book.

Doc

I got mine from Token Publishing (the Medal News and MYB folks), but the NA has it too.

Uh... we've got recent stuff out.

I'm just wondering, as an airborne officer,already an "overachiever" as an O-C, whether he ended up as a Colonel after the many interesting adventures of the last 4 decades of the previous century.

That wouldn't surprise me at all.

Yessssss!

Having "topped his (jump) class" in '67, where was he in Afghanistan??

Enquiring (and Inquiring) minds wanna know, NOW!

Ed-- did you get his service records too?

Not "yet", boss. What I show here is what I received from the previous custodian. His Excellency the Research Master has been contacted.

If still living (born 1947?!) may not be centrally available.

Nice picture. A true shame the loonies want to keep these locked up in detention.

What has struck me -- both in awards and in the whole wider range of State symbolism -- is what seems to be a very conscious desire to return to an imperial set of symbols, to conjure a fake pre-revolutionary tsarist era. Fair enough, all states "market" themselves through their symbols, but I was struck by the vague unease that many I met in Moscow voiced to me about Tsar Vladimir III "Putin"'s conscious efforts at imperial symbolic rescurrection and historical denial.

Officer Candidate Aleksandr Pavlovich Burdin -- a simple unnumbered MMM and document, though researched and, I think, interesting.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12358

And translation:

And reverse:

And recommendation:

Reverse:

And researched. Award card:

Award page:

Him, closeup and personal.

Interior:

In 1967, Officer Candidate received a simple Medal for Military Merit (unnumbered).