Ed_Haynes

V 05 -- The Outstanding Worker of the MRYL

Numbered, this #260.

V 03 -- The Educator of the Young Generation

U 30 -- The Pioneer Palace

U 26 and U 28 -- The Pupil with the Best Note

U 27 missing?

U 19 -- Mongolian Pioneer Organization, 1925-75

U 16 -- 1st Conference of the Mongolian Pioneers

U 12 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 11 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 09 -- The Pioneer Camp

U 08 - Pioneer Pin "Always Ready"

U 01 -- Baatarchuud Badge

Odd, I have found the one (and only, even though a few miles away) MAX I even attended to be a cruel joke, populated by fairly knowledge-challenged folk who mainly seemed motivated by their love affair with the 3rd Reich. OMSA has a more interesting, professional, focused, coherent, often knowledable, and frequently wise group. Pricing? Whatever the market will bear. Blame capitalism. And if you don't like the prices, you don't have to buy; there is a room-full of vendors.

Much as I love the OMRS, their meeting is a one-day shark feeding frenzy. Great to see friends, bad to get medals, and no seminars or anything else of reddeming social value. Unless you want to be in person at the DNW auction of do research in London, give it a pass. And, relevant to many here, it will be mostly British; great for some of us, but perhaps not for others.

Sorry to miss OMSA this year, shall give OMRS a miss, and shall never bother with another MAX even though an 18 minute drive away (may meet one dealer, if he comes again, in the parking lot).

Andrew:

I can, but I still haven't yet decided if that's a good idea yet or not. Not to sound greedy, but I had to pay for the research out of my own pocket, and if I posted it up here, that means that the current owner could have it for free - and potentially use it to make a profit were they to go sell the award... Basically, I would be paying for them to make a profit.

If I knew the owner of the award, or if he were a friend of mine, it would be completely different. But, what if the current owner of this award is a dealer, who would simply use the posted award card to make money? No thanks....

Dave

Dave makes a really good point, and one we ought all to ponder.

Ed already posted a E 13, so I move on to E 14, which he also posted, but as mentioned earlier I have two different "variations" of this one. I think the one on the right on my pic is like the one Ed posted (with a "silver" look), the other on the left has a more yellow "golden" look. Is the one with a "silver" look just more worn? I guess it's possible as the reverse of both my Badges look almost the same. Anyway here are both.

Dolf

I think, especially on these Mongolian badges, the gold- versus silver-coloured business may just be random variation in manufacturing. The same sort of thing we see with the Soviet 25th Anniversary of the GPW badge? What do we think??

L 07 -- The Oil Industry, Mongolian Oiler

L 02 -- The Outstanding Miner of the MPR

In the spirit of what is happending elsewhere on this sub-forum, may we please see this as a general "Battushig's category 'D'" forum.

M 30 -- Post Pin

M 23 -- The Outstanding Worker of Trade and Service