Ed_Haynes

Yes, lower right. But the JORDANIAN not HEJAZI variety, and on the wrong wribbon too. See: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.ph...big&cat=616

I have thoughts, but they aren't very encouraging. Shall await a more expert diagnosis. I would not advise spending much money for this on the basis of the "medal" or the ribbon bar.

More to come, mate, more to come (although things over here have been VERY quiet!).

Interesting - would be good to figure put which films it appeared in!

Honestly, I am not sure the NUMBER alone does you any good at all. The regiment only would be better. Seems to me the price is high anyway, but that may just be me.

I find this very interesting. But I know a little about medals, and a little about history, but nothing about the narrowly fine points of architecture. Educate me?

It is hard to say. There was much confusion in this period (as there had been with the medal for the First Sikh War) over the unfortunate practice of issuing clasps without "ears" and then issuing subsequent catch-up clasps. I would agree with your very logical scenario with the only possible hesitation lying in the chance that this may have been a post-research collector "restoration" by slipping a "harvested" clasp on a medal (some dealers seem to revel in providing these stripped clasps ). Yet the similarity of wear leads me to suspect this may well be period and that the two clasps have remained with the medal only by tremendous luck. Personally I find the medal both very plausible and very nice. If I collected medals to natives (of the British Isles), I'd be most envious.

Lovely! Thanks!!

Second Sikh War 7 Sep 1848-14 March 1849: Chillianwala 13 Jan 1849 Goojerat 21 Feb 1849 (also clasp for Mooltan 7 Sep 1848-22 Jan 1849) All mine are, of course, to Indians. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2400&st=4 and maybe I should add my singles to http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3510 (not here, I guess, as they weren't "British" )

ID requested and answer given over on the OMSA forum. See: http://www.omsa.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1131 for cross-post. Reproduced here, FYI: Morocco, Wissam al-Mehdawi / Order of Mehdi To quote from http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/medals/morocco.html item #7. This seems to be the kinght's badge (lowest class) of the 1937-45 award (which would make sense. Higher class illustrated in http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=569 FYI. Not sure I'd want to have been the Nazi wearing this award, though.

Nope, absolutely plain. Just goofy reflections of scan or deviant screen behavior? Or the kind of visual fantasy outbreaks to which collectors of Mongolian awards are prone? All that lovely enamel??

Yes, nice one. The attachment of second clasps on medals where the first clasp was "earless" is often an opportunity either for the second clasp to go walkabout or for the regimental blacksmith to practise weird and sometimes wonderful exercises of his craft. The Sikh Wars -- like the medals for those campaigns -- are among the most understudied and underappreciated of the HEICo's outings. It is often ignored, for example, that the campaigns and the medals were not "crown", but "company" undertakings. And the First Sikh War represented the first use of clasps, though in as yet a "mixed" usage (first battle on medal, second on clasp; by the Second Sikh War, this system had come of age, only to die an ugly death late in the 20th century (in both India and the UK).

E 07b - For Success in Guarding, II Dolf has shown some of these above. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10173&st=5 I just received one from one of our good forum friends that suggests more complexity in these E 07 badges than we have assumed. Dolf's examp[les are on-target with the ones shown by Battushig, with medium blue backing on the second class' tablet where the "II" appears and gold-yellow on the "III". This one has white on the tablet behind the "II". Differences by branch, unit, or ???

While I'll defer to greater experts, I think we need to be careful with their early commemorative (table) medals. In many cases, they were mounted and worn, so they straddle the two worlds of numismatics and phaleristics. At least with the ones I study (India-related), the threshold is not as exact as we sometimes think it is. An interesting evolutionary moment?

Oh . . . nice . . . .

I have no doubt that these are original and legitimate medals. It is just their "group" status that bothers me.

Not mine, mate, wish it were , but largely that of http://sagongs.ipbhost.com/ -- credit where credit is due, you know.

The others are nice, though!

And looking, the mounting bar is a four-holer. Some faker saving money??

Sorry, mate.

But, sorry, this is getting us way for this thread and this forum!

Sorry, gotta add one more, AVM Ranjan Dutt, VrC. Would trade BOTH my daughters for HIS group!

Actually, may I correct, <24 ACE Stars? See: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/...s/OE-RAF24.html

And others . . . . Unknown, at present, whether their ACEs are named or not. (They are being asked, those who survive or whose families can be contacted! Same for Atlantic Stars, though my naval contacts are fewer.) As late as two years ago, the medal office in the MoD in New Delhi till stocked ACE Stars. Alas, while Indian pilots were training and serving in the UK during the Battle of Britian, they were never operational. Drat!

Or Squadron Leader Mohinder Singh Pujji DFC: