Ed_Haynes

As you say, Matthijs:

I shall not rise to the politics.

My question still stands:

. . . has it been continued under the democratic (majority) government?

Oh . . . quite ominous stuff.

Hi Ed,

I think you may want to put the word "democratic" in quotation marks there......

Matthijs.

Depends, I guess, on how you define the word (and who you are?)?

In the total absence of sources, I'd agree. Look like what a brigadier I met this summer was wearing. Surely is a Nepali crown.

That design is sure to change in the near future, reflecting political shifts, so these may soon be really collectible.

Ahhh . . . many empty fields to expand into . . . .

Ed,

The answer is yes they are fattening up nicely. I found a great spot on the wall for them.

Bedst,

Doc

That is to say: Tavtai saikhan! (Fattening nicely!)

Ran across the perfect question for you today:

Mal s?reg targan tavtaiyuu?

I hope your animals are fattening up nicely?

A good multi-purpose question either for Mongolian herdsmen or for the herdsman of Mongolian herdsmen's badges??

So . . . has it been continued under the democratic (majority) government?

Sounds like an obsolete award?

I know the feeling, Gilbert. So many wondrous things must be there, but . . . .

This is one reason I usually ask the Honoured Researcher to prepare a translation -- it will at least be a start!

Here's version (= attempt) 1.2. Improving, but not "there" yet!

Medal_names.pdf

Medal_names.pdf

Hi! My name is Nasaa. I think your item no.8 should read "shudraga juram medal", something like "Civic Duty" or "Public order" medal. "Shudraga" means honest or upright, "juram" means system or order.

>>N

I am really (really) grateful for this, for I think we have (finally) captured teh real name of the "Medal for Unselfishness"!

Nice one, rare one. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, Zorigo!

Pretty certain it is here on the forum . . . we can both look.

While there's no CH image over at the OMSA database

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/index.php

you may find other images of use. (Though I cannot pretend to understand your project.)

Megan Robertson's fine site does have an image, however:

http://www.medals.org.uk/united-kingdom/un...-kingdom026.htm

Some of it, I suspect, may be language. You have it, but what does it say?!

A shame these are ignored, for these are nice, even though they don't have pretty enamel!

Yes, that's what it is.

They seem happy in their new pasture.

Very tasty eye-candy! Many thanks!

Hi, I am 99% sure this is a fake because the suspension like this one is definitely a fake! The medal looks like a Mao badge, but Mao badge never has a suspension!

My thoughts exactly. An unenameled (unfinished?) Mao badge mounted up for eBay consumption?

I love Mao badges in their own right, but . . .

Better dealers (Chris Dixon, Liverpool Medals) usually have "museum copies" (= pretty fakes). So, I guess, does eBay, but many of these look like "prizes" from boxes of Cracker Jacks.

I'm learning russian rigth now. so I won't ask for the translation. My only big problem is to read russian handwriting.

In between the often insane handwriting and the specialised vocabulary and abbreviations, you may still need someone with specialised knowledge in the particular Russian used in the documents. My colleague, who specialises in Russian history (late imperial, early Soviet) and has years of research experience in central and provincial archives often has problems and I have to run back to the researcher and beg "will you translate just this little bit please".

I'd suggest a good reference book. British Battles and Medals or even Medal Yearbook.

All are British medals and were awarded throughout the "Commonwealth" and Empire, including in South Africa. (Your distinctions/categories are part of the confusion?)

The only award in yoiur list that was restricted to South Africa is the Africa Service Medal which was awarded to South Africans for WWII service (similar to other medals for Canadians, Indians, Australians, New Zealanders, etc.); this was, in large part, due to the restrictive award conditions that accompanied the Defence Medal which was, in essence, a "Defence of Britain Medal".

There is some interesting confusion over the "Order of Merit" award. Until 1902, it was one award but when a new award of the same name was mistakenly created, the older award had to be renamed the "Indian Order of Merit".

Your "Boer War Medal" can be any one of several things, the two British or the two South African Boer campaign awards.

Many of these, by the way, are shown in various threads on this forum, so you might think about looking around.

While I can't recall anything remotely like in in the two books I use, shall look again, but I also cannot read the language. Frankly, this think feels all wrong, from the general motif to the suspender, but Chinese ODMs always hold surprises! Still, it looks like an "EBay Special" to me!

Would CSC, Jubilee & Red Cross make sense for a copper?

Peter

No, none.