Ed_Haynes

just an aside...did you find anything on that Pir Baksh of the 5th Punjabi regiment???

The one that Sam Moss asked you about...its coming to reside in my collection...Yay!

No joy on this trip, sorry. But I haven't given up. Next time . . . .

Oops, that is probably not legible! The core part:

His Rao Bahadur recommendation.

And someone's (his wife's?) 1911 Durbar Medal:

Him (the best I can clean up the photo):

Rao Bahadur Motilal Chunnilal

His medals.

Rao Bahadur title 1906 (badge from the 1911 retrospective awards), as District Collector, Broach, Bombay.

JC 70892 Subadar Khem Singh, Guards

1- 1947 GSM "Goa 1961" - 13653276 GDSM. KHEM SINGH, GUARDS.

2- Raksha Medal - 13653276 NK. KHEM SINGH, GUARDS.

3- Sangram Medal - JC 70892 NB. SUB ADJT KHEM SINGH GDS

4- Sainya Seva Medal "Himalaya" - 13653276 HAV. KHEM SINGH, GUARDS.

4- 25th Independence Anniversary - JC 70892 SUB KHEM SINGH GUARDS

5- 20 Year - JC 70892 SUB KHEM SINGH GUARDS

6- 9 Year - 13653276 CHM. KHEM SINGH, GUARDS.

Lance-Havildar S. Singh, Bombay Engineer Group

1- Poorvi Star - 1525196 SPR S SINGH BOMBAY ENGR GP

2- Raksha Medal - 1525196 SPR S SINGH BOMBAY ENGR GP

3- Sangram Medal - 1525196 SPR S SINGH

4- Sainya Seva Medal, "Jammu Kashmir" - 1527127 HAV. RAJARAM, BOMBAY E. G. (Clearly, he lifted someone else's medal!)

5- 25th Independence Medal - 1525196 SPR S SINGH BEG

6- 20 Year - 1525196 L-HAV. S SINGH BOMBAY E. G.

7- 9 Year - 1525196 SPR S SINGH BOMBAY ENGR GP

A fascinating thread, guys, thanks. Always like learning new things!

Assuming we see these as the two ends of the series, it was sure a long way to fall in design terms. As the Wise Old Man said, "what a long strange trip its been".

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10221&st=17

J NIB 02 -- National Distinguished Herder (???)

The interior spread of the document, a 1991 award.

F NIB 01 -- Civic Protection Outstanding Worker

Thank the gods for http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/...lish/index.html which gave me the online Mongolian to English dictionary I have been seeking.

X NIB 03 -- Outstanding Worker of the Trade Union

Numbered on the reverse, this is # 830.

B NIB 03 -- Outstanding Agitator

P NIB 04 -- 60- Years of Mongolian Roadways (???)

R NIB 01 -- Something to do with the Party Instituite (What??)

By "diamonds" you mean CZ?

No, the massively-confusing-with-ten-times-these-in-NIBs R46-R85 series!

Sooner or later we will have to take them on, but why not do the easier ones first?

S NIB 01 -- Medal for the 750th Anniversary of the "Secret History of the Mongols"

1990.

Buy a big gun , no seriously, unless they could prove the items came from a state museum I cant see any way of them removing them fom private collections

Order of Victory

Well, if the items have the same serial numbers as items that used to be in state collections . . . end of discussion!

This gets us back into a discuission of hosting stolen goods in out collections that was closed down by the club modera

Btw, the one you list as J 15 above is in fact J 14.

Oops, typo fixed, thanks Dolf. Posting fast leads to errors.

X NIB 02 -- Labor Union Badge

A tiny little thing, 22 x 18 mm.

X 24 -- The Outstanding Activist of the Labor Union

X 20 -- The Glory of Labor

X13 X 14 X 15 -- The Shockworker of Socialist Labor, classes 1, 2, and 3

All three classes together.