Ed_Haynes

Document.

OK, I know it is the one you are all waiting to see, right?

Separate plate and screw-back.

No "knighthood", for sure, but some inventive mounting of a range of exotic foreign awards.

Reverse:

No record here, but this (rather spooky-looking) guy's photo just joined my files:

You must have a pipeline to The Researcher! :envy:

(Need to send him ANOTHER e-mail.)

Fascinating, Bob. Is there documentation for this??

And the nasty-muddy-xeroxed photo (but same as booklet, I think, with artificial jaw).

Part 3

Sorry.

Part 2.

Inside, part 1. (Where'd the BLOB come from!)

Have scanned in many pieces due to small size or writing. And there WILL be overlap.

Reverse.

And, at the risk or over-stretching Comrade Rick, the service card, part 1:

Thanks for all this, Hugh. Somebody, someday (hint-hint) needs to do something by way of reference, however premininary. See how long it has taken us to get something on "North Korea" and they are "the enemy" (to some of us), but we have NOTHING on "South Korea"!!!

Why not work it up here and then, maybe, OMSA later on.

What they have is pretty thin: http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=552 (for a number of reasons, I don't do much over there anymore ).

And, explaining a lot.

As most of this bundle is in untranslated Russian (sorry, Rick), let me just add the translations of two items that give some context for this group.

I still need to sort xeroxes and award cards (a 5-inch stack).

Translation 1--

Reverse.

OK, while he has been mentione over at http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3285 (and, I think, elsewhere), let me work on giving him the complete treatment he deserves.

Award record card.

Another picture of him (no Lenin Prize yet) but suggests what has strayed from this gigantios group that, apparently, went to the "four winds".

And quite (!) a nice "collection" he had!

Also got the recommendations for his two HSUs, :envy:.

FASCINATING!!!!

Is it possibly possible that South Korean stuff may be more confusing than the Taiwanese awards? Could that be?

Chinese imperial is starting to seem straightforward by comparison.

Thanks!

You're welcome, Ed, and I have a few more to post. . .

I shall sit by the computer awaiting more stories!!

Another nice one, many thanks.

Nice. Always good to see how the research can expand the tale. A shame the others have strayed, but they may be out there somewhere.

Guards Lt. Colonel Mikhail Tolkachev

Only part of the group shown, there's SOOOO MUCH.

See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5053

Great to hear that you have more articles lined up...

My brother was a member for a few years but here is the problem both he and I had with the whole OMSA thing....

They publish your home address and send it to all other members....

Now most of the stuff is in the bank and we've both moved since he was a member, but I find it rather strange that this info is so easily available..

There are many members who don't put their goodies in the bank and this is an invitation for thieves to rob them blind...

JC

They publish whatever address you give them to have the journal sent to. There are other problems with the society, don't get me started, but the journal is good.