Ed_Haynes

And another one, mounted, from my "group-that-probably-isn't-a-group". I think of it as a set of singles stuck together. (The price was low anyway.)

Type 4, 440621

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2456

Even more worn, but even more special. From the Lavrinovich group:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2326

RSFSR Red Banner, type 1, 10825 (matching-numbered screw-plate, though repaired [too]).

(Hard to see the number hiding up there. My Epson 1660 does not like things with long posts. Need to drill a hole in the glass plate. )

As Gerd has starded a thread on that "other" Red Banner, let me bump this one in an effort to encourage others to be added here.

Let me throw in a type 2, variety 2, 4935

Awarded to Maria Yakovlevna Oprishko teacher of Bobritskaya Incomplete Secondary School, Romny District, Sumy Region, Ukranian SSR. Awarded 1 June 1939, "For prominent successes in school and Soviet education of children in rural schools, for outstanding organization of education, and active participation in village social life".

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2732

My latest, the one from the Lomtatidze group

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6830

Type 2, variety 2 - 61232

It has suffered through some extensive -- and clumsy -- repairs, I fear. Still, I await the research.

Nice thread. I like this one too. Will add a few.

My first, just a solo, undocumented, and research awaits (yes, I feel I have the duty to TRY to research even single RBs! -- though as a low priority).

Type 4, 381808.

Pretty things, pretty things.

(At least you have outgrown that Luft Waffle stuff )

What a nice white flag. (Was that a pun?)

Please, keep it up. I always enjoy learning things, seing new items.

Very high quality minis, then; I thought they were full-sized as well. And finding a named miniature like the QSA is quite uncommon, which is another reason we thought they were full-sized.

And the usual absence of naming on miniatures is one reason that I (and most collectors) have little interest in miniatures. Yet, whatever naming may be there is, by definition, unofficial and opens the floodgates to potential problems.

Ed,

A suggestion would be to check whether he is listed in Michael Parrish's Soviet security and intelligence organizations 1917-1990 : a biographical dictionary and review of literature in English. The book include info on a lot of odd persons within or associated with the security organs. Sadly I don't have access to it at the moment, but I could have it checked rather quickly asking the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Just let me know.

Kind Regards

Steen Ammentorp

The Generals of World War II

Thanks, Steen. Our library doesn't have it, but it is on the way by inter-library loan. Will report back when and if something found.

By request, closeup on the award entries in the booklet. Thoughts and observations welcomed. Odd order, for sure (1967, 1975, 1942), but don't such things happen (ex post facto entry of earlier awards into a later award book)?

Once again, you prompt me to ask: Now where did I park that time machine??

Lovely eye-candy and fantasy-making material.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=7...indpost&p=73745

Wow, I am also amazed that it is possible to get ISM award dates from only the names.

Such magic always impresses me, no matter what the subject area.

With the (incredibly cranky) London Gazette online, even we puny British ODM "collectors" (phalerists) can work wonders.

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveSearch.asp?WebType=0

Makes you wonder why such things exist. Even eBay people aren't dumb enough for these, or are they? Were they, as Mike implies, childrens' toys? Like the plastic US medals that used to come in breakfast cereal boxes (and are now immensely collectible -- why did my mother throw them out?).

This group has now come to live with me, and I shall be posting any new research finds here, as they trickle in.

This group has now come to live with me, and I shall be posting any new research finds here, as they trickle in.

Lovely - hope the Research MAster can work some magic here.

Auszeichnungen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Milit?rverlag der DDR

Frank Bartel/J?rgen Karpinski, Berlin 1979. No ISBN

Milit?rische Abzeichen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Klaus Feder, Jurgen Wagner, Ralf Swoboda, Milit?rverlag der DDR. Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-327-00523-0

Thanks . . . off to ABE books now

Kevin,

Could we possibly have some useful bibliographical information on those last two books so that, if we desire, we can seek copies? There is not even an author's or publisher's name on the cover, much less an ISBN.

Thanks,

Ed

While not, technically, a "book", for reference on DDR awards, you may wish to glance at:

http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=531

While focused on medals and not uniforms or other such stuff, you may also wish to glance at:

http://www.omsa.org/forums/showthread.php?t=626

One point of interest in the book is that, according to the author, Richthofen received the Iron Cross THIRD class in 1914. How interesting!

Clearly a unique and interesting award. Does make you question all else in the book, doesn't it? It does indicate that everyone who write a history book isn't, automatically, a HISTORIAN!

Lovely, Eric. We await the Second Edition with antici . . . pation.

Welcome Graeme!

Ed

Thanks, Bob. Good idea for what I hope will become a useful quick-reference thread.

While you have to understand the source (USA, Pentagon, CIA, State Department, USA) and the interests and biases that that these sources present, the Mongolia "Country Handbook" is of some use, and it is on-line:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mntoc.html

While this is the 2nd edition, you do need to remember that it was published in 1991. It might be useful to compare the first edition as well, as it is from 1970. So far as I know, there is no 3rd edition (yet?).