Ed_Haynes

An uncommon one.

A 60 -- Badge "20 Years of Khalkin Gol" (1939-59)

China: The Committee for the Affairs of Mongolia and Tibet, until 1911

Silver (silvered bronze?), 53.7 mm, enameled white on obverse.

Battushig, p. 170, as 05.

Chinese-Mongolian Customs Police, 1912-29

Bronze enameled, 34 x 51 mm. A strange attachment on the reverse and numbered (this 33).

Battushig, p. 170, as 04.

Guess this one belongs here, in this strangely conjoined thread. A NIB.

D. Natsagdorj Literary Prize

Medal 25 mm. Ranks below the Title of Merit.

Well . . . it ought to exist?

Deputy of the State Higher Assembly (1924-44)

Silver. Mintmark "МД". Number 63.

Don't know . . .

A new type. Enameled ribbon, lightly silvered bronze, unnumbered. Believed to have been awarded only for Mongolian-Chinese border clashes in the 1960s.

A new type (for my list), though Battushig shows it as A 38.5. To be honest, I had dismissed it as a "mule" until seeing it and finding out that there is photographic evidence of this strange unnumbered all-brass thing being worn. So . . . ??

An early, Mongolian-made, first class, third (?) grade, of the Order of the Vajra. The badge is 53.5 mm across. It has had a hard life, though.

What's so special. The number.

A nice old type 1.1.1 (NIB), with a ribbon that has had a hard life.

Type 1.1 (A 40.1), number 76 (new high).

Newly in, a shortened screwpost so easy to scan.

A type 2.1 (?) (A 32.1). The mintmark is straight (enough); I am coming to believe all the mintmark differences here are meaningless.

Number 9.

Somewhere in Brazil's archives there must be a record of the purchase order.

Yes, you'd be far better off looking in Brazilian records. Spink won't help.

Research? Not yet. Has been requested. Watch this space . . . .

Any help in the interin? Pretty please . . . .

Mongolian "We Won" (number -- 54271 -- matches to the medal)

Victory over Japan

Victory over Germany.

Next page . . . .

Documents? All of them.

All is as expected, except for the nunbering on the older Red Star (1923384), which strikes these novice eyes as unusual. (Sorry for the lousy scan - depth of field.)

A nice cross-over group for me, already shown elsewhere on the forum.

I present it here to solicit (= beg) help and thoughts.

Captain Mikhail Ivanovitch Guzov

Red Banner 385124

Red Star 1923384

Red Star 3000624

Military Merit Medal 1458581

Victory Germany

Victory Japan

Mongolian "We Won" 54271

It was an award for those on the rebel (fascist) side, not the government and its supporters.

Spink is and has always been (at least since the late 19th century) a MAJOR manufacturer of medals. They will never respond to queries regarding this and, if you get anything, it will be that all their records were destroyed in the Blitz. Not true, but it is a way to get rid of pesky collectors and even legitimate researchers.

Their auction website is not as good as DNW's (for example), and searching their old auctions online is vitrtually impossible. Their catalogues are too expensive and too irrelevant for me (they pretty much restrict their sale to medals to natives -- of the British Isles -- and have strong and negative attitudes toward medals to Indians).

When I was in UB, they had coverage on TV of awards ceremonies, together with interviews with recent awardees. All in Mongolian, so it went over my linguistic head. Nice images though.

So far, they are still awarding (nasty brass versions of) the old awards. There is much talk, however, about changing things, and setting up new awards. There is a chance they'll involve Someone Who Knows A Lot about Mongolian awards in this process. We may hope so, as they've certainly come out with some ugly and ahistorical stuff so far.

Wardak is also wearing the US blue Infantry cord and the US Infantry School Instuctor's pocket fob.

Yes, and the US Ranger tab. Guess who his friends are . . . ???