Ed_Haynes

Not to preempt Paul's offerings, I have put up a number of Iraqi awards in the "Arab exotica" thread I started and will be adding more until your toleration for such things ends.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2785

A nice pair!

A shame there's no photo. It always helps to have a face to put with the medals.

Long years of hoping for really great close up focussed portrait photos of the things in wear durng the war have never turned up either: not enough to be sure of a specific type.

Absolutely! And it would also be good to get more images of them being worn by Turks, not only by allied foreigners (= Germans).

Here's a closer closeup on the reverse of the "Soyombo".

Thanks for all commentary and theories.

Yet another "new" variant! I've never seen a painted version with stippling under the red before. Has that got the usual cast in pin embedded in the back, or is it a bit better made?

Ther are actually "precise" German made copies of the tawdry painted version-- Steinhauer & L?ck was making them in the 1930s, though God knows what market BOUGHT them. But the German pins are... German pins.

Reverse? Your wish is my command, Rick (once I drag the goodie from the bank where it lives).

DDR -- 45th and 50th Anniversary Badges

DDR -- 30th and 40th Anniversary Badges

DDR -- 25th Anniversary Badge, three varieties

DDR - Veterans' Badge

Honorary Labor Medal, Type 2 Var. 2 / Почетная Трудовая медаль, Тип 2, Bариант 2

#18531

(Yes, there is an obvious hole in the "Haynes Collection" that wants filling!)

Honorary Labor Medal, Type 1, Var. 2 / Почетная Трудовая медаль, Тип 1, Bариант 2

#3842

Honorary Labor Medal, Type 1, Var. 1 / Почетная Трудовая медаль, Тип 1, Bариант 1

#550

And, although we all know this one, just to complete the set:

4- Order of the Red Banner of Labor Valor -- 1945 type, #621, 1951 issue

3- Order of Sukhbaatar -- 1945 type screw back, #423, 1962 issue (awarded with the Gold Soembo)

2- Order of Sukhbaatar -- 1945 type screw back, #158, 1957 issue

DEPTH OF FIELD!!

Ed, could you pls place revers pictures for Soembo and Sukhabatar also?

Thanks.

Dima

Glad to be of service, Dima.

Will do the best I can to scan around the screw-posts. Obviously these things were not designed with scanners in mind!

1- Hero of Labor "Gold Soyombo" Medal -- #52, 1962 issue

Agricultural Meritorious Service Medal / Nongop Kongno Metal

established 24 December 1974

Meritorious Service Medal, type 1 / Kongno Metal, type 1

established 13 June 1949

1949-1960 variety - the later type, shown above, is the post-1960 variety

JAMMU AND KASHMIR -- Darel Campaign Medal, 1866

From the online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica:

" . . . . Gulab Singh would not again cross the Indus, but after his death (in 1857) Maharaja Ranbir Singh longed to recover lost prestige. In. 1860 he sent a force into Gilgit. Gaur Rahman just then died, and there was little resistance. The Dogras after that took Yasin twice, but did not hold it. They also, in 1866, invaded Darel, one of the most secluded Dard states, to the south of the Gilgit basin, but withdrew again. In 1889, in order to guard against the advance of Russia, the British government, acting as the suzerain power of Kashmir, established the Gilgit agency; in 1901, on the formation of the North-West Frontier province, the rearrangement was made as stated above. . . ."

(Emphasis added.)

Part of the elusive and very poorly documented series of early Jammu and Kashmir medals that include the better known Medal for Gilgit and Chilas 1854 (McClenaghan #166) and Medal for Yasin and Darel 1863 (McClenaghan 167).

As very little in this area now exists, this medal is posted, in part, in commemoration of the earthquake victims.

INDORE -- Order of Ahliya Holkar Saltanat, Rai Ratan

Class four of civil division of state order.

PATIALA - Order of Merit, 3rd class, commander, military / Nishan-i-Iftikhar, 3rd class, commander, military

Membership limited to seven.

BIKANER -- Golden Jubilee Medal, 1937, silver

For the golden jubilee of Maharaja Ganga Singh.

PATIALA -- Great War Medal, 1914-18

The ribbons are, alas, rarer than the medals. Apoloigies for the naked medal.

BARODA -- Diamond Jubilee Medal (1875-1935), silver / Hirtak Mahotsava Medal (1875-1935), silver

Issued for the Diamond Jubilee in 1935 of Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Maharaja Sir Sayaji Rao III Gaekwar Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur of Baroda.

Pin clasp marked Spink & Son, London.

JAMMU AND KASHMIR -- War Medal, 1914-1918

First class (silver) for officers, and second class (bronze) for other ranks.