Ed_Haynes
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Dave is right. It is always better, and not significantly more expensive, to go for full research.
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Red Cross and St. John??
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Real kukris were (and in the Indian and Nepali armies today still are) of local manufacture, unmarked. There are villages that specialise. (Gorkhas still in anachronistic British service get them through a Kathmandu-based wholesaler who gets them made, to a different set of patterns -- smaller and lighter -- in the same villages.) The sama makers and villages also provide them for local consumption, as everyday-use items (and I am told them have been supplying the now-victorious Maoists too).
I have never seen one named but, then, I have never seen one that had been used by a native (of the British Isles).
The name of the British officer -- if that is what it is -- might be traced in relevant Indian Army Lists?
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The problem is, I don't think stamps on pictures were as universal in Mongolia as they were in the Soviet Union, so their presence or absence is not as useful a diagnostic tool. This picture, however, stinks like six-week-old buuz! A lovely booklet spoiled, or at least harmed.
And how to remove the offending (and dumb) photo? Especially in a booklet that already seems to have pretty bad water damage.
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Other words fail me. Well, actually, they don't. But I don't want to get censored . . . .
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Bumped at the request of one of the forum denizens.
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But isn't the SOS a "general militaria and all other stuff" show and HEAVILY German 1933-45? Personally, I value the ODM focus of the OMSA.
But we're getting
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Good thoughts, comrades!
It is one thing I really enjoiy about the OMSA, that the reliable dealers (dealer?) there will allow you to fondle and examine his goodies. As close as I'll ever get to wonders like a tractor Lenin. And there is no substitute for caressing real things and getting their "feel".
Never been to a SOS, but went to the MAX for the first time last year (as it was but 20 miles away and I knew two dealer-researcher-friends would be there). Woo, lots of Nazis . . . and a lot of Third Reich collectors too! Even if it were still close and I knew my friends would be there, I'd probably give it a pass.
OMSA!
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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.
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Thank you, Nasaa. And welcome to the forum!! As you see, we need help from someone who knows the language.
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Sure, fakes are about, but I am very afraid that Soviet collecting is getting infected with the "Third Reich Disease", and arguing that "Everything I have is REAL, and if your specimen differs from mine then it is FAKE FAKE FAKE!"
Right . . .
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Interesting. So little is known about these warlord period medals.
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Yes, as I expected. Good to know my novice "gut feeling" is confirmed.
Have legitimate documented sets surfaced? And can these be researched?
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One other useful source:
http://rulers.org/rulm2.html#mongolia
(And, again, it would be nice if this thread could be pinned -- a hint to whoever holds that power!)
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Hi Paul
Thank you, that would be appreciated.
Could you tell me what the dates were for the different era's are?0 -
10 Mar 1846 - 30 Jan 1867 - Osahito (統仁 - Komei-tenno - 孝明天皇), (b. 1831 - d. 1867)
13 Feb 1867 - 30 Jul 1912 - Mutsuhito (睦仁 - Meiji-tenno - 明治天皇,), (b. 1852 - d. 1912)
30 Jul 1912 - 25 Dec 1926 - Yoshihito (嘉仁 - Taisho-tenno - 大正天皇), (b. 1879 - d. 1926)
25 Nov 1921 - 25 Dec 1926 - Prince Hirohito (regent), (b. 1901 - d. 1989)
25 Dec 1926 - 7 Jan 1989 - Hirohito (裕仁 - Showa-tenno - 昭和天皇), (s.a.)
7 Jan 1989 -- - Akihito (明仁), (b. 1933) [to be Heisei - 平成]
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Thanks to our fearless leader for setting up this category. It gives Japanese items the prominence they deserve, rather than burying them inappropriately among "Axis" items.
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Background sounds of quiet weeping. Yet . . . a piece of history . . . .
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Yes, they are indeed the GEMS here (despite other lovelies). There were specimens, I think, in the recent ANS sale. Didn't have the heart to see what they finally went for!
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Oh . . .
. . . on K-424, see:
K-424 - Severodvinsk - serial no. 355 - laid down 30.1.74 - launched 11.2.76 - completed 30.12.76; 9.9.76 damaged during trials; accepted into the Northern Fleet 5.2.77, attached to the 13th Submarine Division; 1977 to 1978 22 R-29R test firings (with K-441); 21.12.87 to 16.12.88 under repair; from Mar 1988 attached to the 31st Submarine Division; decommissioned 28.3.95
From: http://orbat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=26...8f2a34e294740b0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_III_class_submarine
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/slbm/667BDR.htm
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/wrjp1251h-ussr.html
http://bellona.org/english_import_area/int...issioning/28335
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Never a national flag. Just a (recurrent) red flag image, a generic?
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My sense from what I was told . . . and the researcher could be wrong . . . is that he was anti-aircraft using his guns in an anti-personnel capacity (at there were no "rebel" planes to shoot at). Dunno . . . .
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BEWARE of another deceiving order booklet
in People's Republic Mongolia
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Agreed. Nice and I see no problems. And a couple of interesting date/number data points too!