Ed_Haynes

I have posted all of mine . . . exactly none . . . but I have high hopes of remedying this soon. You seem to have the entire captive population, Bob.

Can you scan the interior document spread please, so we can get the correct name of this odd (and rare) little gong.

I, too, am still lacking a nasty all-brass Algan gadas Odon (happy, Rick? ). Anticipate an early remedy to this.

Any indication of any match between badge number and a number given in the two documents, in either script??

What are the numbers and types, by the way?

To be honest, I am increasinglky unsure that the guilt and silver varieties may not in fact be the same, with a thin gilt evaporated on some, as the numbers -- so far -- overlap with gay abandon. Until we can get some SOLID dates on these, we are at sea (a hard thing to do in Mongolia).

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Thanks. What's the number on your "cross" variety? Sorry, aging eyes want to know and cannot decipher it from the scan.

In fact, a close-up please. What is that "blob" in the centre??

Ohhh, nice, Bob!

Close-up on the resolute revolutionary visage of the recipient, please???

Hard to say. While so many so thoroughtly denigrate the HSL --

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2735

-- maybe what it represents was, in the final analysis, maybe more important for the greater daily welfare of the people of the CCCP than were the deeds of the poor unfortunate (however heroic) who was by dumb luck the first across some bridgehead in Poland?

A defender of the civilian awards checking in here . . . .

By the way Bob ... sorry for the banter ... great collection. Any chance of some closeups of the award documents?

Yes, please, as you have time, share these in the appropriate threads to help us piece this pesky Mongol business together! We have, after all, become the premier site for collectors of Mongolian awards!!

(And 'tis nice to see where all those goodies on which I got last-nano-second eSniped wound up -- in a good and loving home. )

Hmmm ... I better watch them devils ... no telling what may come out if that Assmann Observer starts getting frisky with that 26 EK1

Sure to see it on eBay soon, out of Latvia . . . ??

... hate to guess the dollar amount just sitting there all in the dark, cold and loneliness

And unloved, mate, unloved. Medals require cuddling, you know . . . . Otherwise, they may not breed (where did you think miniatures came from?!).

While some may snarl, I like these!

Lovely stuff, I can take photos of boxed goodies too. Maybe I should . . . .

What else can I say!

True... of original ones!

Those other unholy contrivances do not qualify as ribbon bars! Those misbegotten shoggoths do not count.

An ex-student of mine manages a local bank branch (showing what a history degree is worth) and cut me a deal on safety deposit box rental (the size of a small European city car). Means my babies do not live at home. When we ship our youngest off to college, . . . ???

Space is a major problem. But when we can reclaim teenage daughter cubic-meters-o-trash, . . . ? Much family negotiation awaits.

Lucky man, have sent PM.

Amazing collection Ed. Ever counted how many groups you have all told?

No, not sure I want to know

It is just that Rick never met a ribbon bar he didn't like

In short .... The full title of this is Croix de Guerre des Th??tres d'Op?rations Ext?rieurs. It was instituted in 1921 as a reward for overseas service during World War One.

. . . and after. All the way up through the last post-WWII colonial wars.

Quel est ce Croix de Guerre TOE de qui vous parlez ? (What is this Croix de Guerre TOE you speak of?)... not familiar with that? Is it Vichy?

No, the TOE was for services outside of metropolitan France, in the colonies. Much more interesting!

I have a few random, rogue, French single items and, when the pros have posted I may add a few. (No interest in Vichy stuff, though.) The only CdG I have in a group (and a triple gallantry group!) is one of which I am quite proud; it is already up over at

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2331&st=19

so I'll not double-post here.

But we have, somehow, gotten way, way on a medal group that deserves discussion. Two threads' worth, in fact.

BTW, I'd have to agree after 40 years of observation that Third Reich = 90% of all collecting...

the 10%

Funny, after 40 years of observation and collecting (OMSA #1299), I'd put the Nazi stuff at closer to 30%.

But, I agree, the 70% (or whatever%).

Might be worth seeing what percentage of OMSA members show Nazi-era stuff as an interest. Will see if the secretary can dump that sort of data our way. Can't recall the last Nazi-era article in the JOMSA. But, then, someone would say, "Oh, the OMSA does not represent the collecting universe." And what does, a SOS gathering?

Agreed, Ed, except that the most popular vibrant area in collecting militaria bar none is 3rd Reich German....despite the snake pit that it is for collectors.

This may be true (may be true) in the US, but is it true globally? And do you mean militaria as a whole or medals? I wonder . . . . The last OMSA convention I attended surely didn't relfect this. (And I don't include things like MAX/SOS that are, almost by definition, Nazi stuff wall-to-wall.)

No way to know, but interesting questions to ponder anyway.

.... remember that interest will peak again in 2018.......

I'd bet on 2014, just eight years, as a date for the interest and price explosion.

The naming and research potential of British awards makes them items of much greater collector interest. There is also the linguistic problem that the collecting world is overwhelmingly Anglophone, and even many collectors of German items never bother learning German. Likewise, the fact that a fair number of these WWI German aviators went on into the Luftwaffe may reduce the market interest in them outside certain circles. Plus I think it is fair to say that there will always be more interest in awards to the winners than to the losers. Not sure any of this "should" be this way, but I just think it is this way.

My two annas worth.

Thanks, Kevin. So little information is available oncontemporary Irish medals. Your contribution, tale, and lovely eye-candy is appreciated!

Yes, I was just looking for that thread and Claudio beat me to it. Amazing how people don't read even our own forum widely.