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At least the colors look "ok" :lol:

Not to my knowledge, but of course they can exist

"Catch"? Well, I saved the pictures :lol:

And another one

Closer

A couple of rare originals for our gallery

Reverse

Check this out guys. This medal was on sale at one of the Baldwin auctions. Obverse

Very interesting specimen! Now we how the process of loosing this black oxidation of medallion looks like

Obverse

Check this out guys! What would be your time assessment for this specimen? End of WWII? Or 1952-1956?

As I said earlier - your logic is impeccable!

Well Rich, I am afraid this is impossible, since Mexico declared war on Japan on June 1, 1942 and discontinued its diplomatic relations with Japan even earlier - in December 1941. Cheers, Nick

Was it the owner who provided this date Rich?

Yep. This set is authentic one. And the box looks good too (although it will be nice to see the reverse side of the cover with inscription). The obverse of the badge and reverse of the breast star would be nice too (for dating of this set). The price for such set in such condition? Hmmm ... Let me put it this way - personally I am ready to pay $5000 for this set

As I said If these are "not hard enough" for you, then you are simply don't know how the original prototypes look like or the quality (and materials used) of original chinese (republic, nationalist and commies) badges . "They" are not "counterfeiting standard, non-rare postage stamps from the PRCT" - most of the time "they" try to copy (quite terribly) well-known originals or create "new rarity" by combining different original designs. This is why "selling the odd badge for $20 is a sustainable business strategy, criminal or otherwise." As for "It does look like a forgery but I have no way of knowing its age" - all these fakes appeared for the first time about 10 years. Or maybe you were thinking about this scenario: "Chinese government decided to produced commemorative badge with design of 1922 Azeri order?" But then again I have no intentions to "rock your world" especially since it is based on such firm foundations 1. "Communists loved badges and awards" 2. "China will have literally billions of these types of badges. But where are all of them?" 3. "My guess is... these are those badges. Cheap, government produced commerative badges" 4."Only the most stupid would bother counterfeiting them. It would be like counterfeiting standard, non-rare postage stamps from the PRC" 5. "Remember, whoever is producing them would be running a company" 6. "I just cannot accept that selling the odd badge for $20 is a sustainable business strategy, criminal or otherwise." Your logic is impeccable!

I was not getting any info about pre-cultural revolution I simply gave you my "evidences" why these badges (that you showed in post #1) are fakes. But obviously my evidences weren't "hard" enough to "rock your world"? In this case I guess "these are those badges. Cheap, government produced commerative badges. " Sweet!

Actually there is only one conclusive way - to know oneself collecting field thoroughly Badges that you showed in your post #1 are 100% fakes. Why? Because some of them are a poor attempts to reproduce known awards from Taiwan, USSR, nationalist China and communist China and others are simply pure phantasy pieces. They all have common (and quite terrible) technological flaws that the real chinese badges don't have. As for these Mao badges. You will find some of them here http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/complete_projects/chairman_mao_badges.aspx http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/research_publications_series/research_publications_online/chairman_mao_badges.aspx