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Medallion close-up`s

Obverse

Reverse

Bow close-up`s

2nd class

勲二等宝冠章

Obverse

Reverse

It`s time to give a proper treatment for these beauties!

Many thanks David for making these exellent scans and sharing them with us!

Order of Precious Crown

宝冠章

Hōkan-shō

宝 - Precious/Treasured

冠 - Crown

章 - Order

Interesting, that by some (unknown to me) reason Peterson translated 宝冠章 as Order of Sacred (?!) Crown.

As far as I understand as adjective 宝 = precious, revered, treasured and as noun 宝 = brilliant, jewel, precious stone, sapphire, treasure. No "sacred" in sight ...

Medals

Ribbons

Both orders came from the same time period - Showa

And another curiosity from the same source

"Military Merits"

"Courage"

Newcomers!

All three were made by Moscow mint.

"Friendship"

2005

Spring awardings

2005 Spring.pdf

2006

Spring awardings

2006 Spring.pdf

Autumn awardings

2006 Fall.pdf

2007

Spring awardings

2007 Spring.pdf

Autumn awardings

2007 Fall.pdf

Three missing years, but unfortunately this rolls are in japanese.

2008

Spring awardings

2008 Spring.pdf

Yep, this seller looks familiar ... same can be said about the badge :whistle:

That's is one cool attribution Nick!

Merry Christmas :beer:

Upper row from left to right

? + Excellent serviceman of soviet army (1957 + version)? + Excellent serviceman of internal troops? (MOOP version 1962-1968?) /// Udarnik (Shock worker) of Stalin's call-up (1934-1957) /// unidentifiable ribbon bars

Lower row from left to right

? + Excellent serviceman of soviet army (1957+ version) + Excellent serviceman of internal troops? (MOOP version 1962-1968?) /// Komsomol badge + GTO ? /// GTO?+ Excellent serviceman of soviet army (1957+ version)

Rick, please scan this photo again (in maximum possible resolution).

Then cut from original scan awards of every man (like I did it in this thread http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/55130-japanese-officers-with-chinese-manchukuo-and-nanjing-government-awards/page-3)

Then post these cuttings.

I think it will be possible to identify some of these badges.

Yes, you are right of course, but according to modern russian-english dictionaries all variants are possible

Родина

native land

home(land)

fatherland

motherland

mother country

Obverse

Bryansk 1941-1945

Reverse

First monument in the country to warrior-drivers

From left to right

From top row to bottom

May 9 / Victory day

Liberation of Kharkov / 1941-1944 Odessa catacombs

Ready to defend the fartheland / Brest 1941-1971

Asatryan Volodya Zhoraevich

Stamp by military commissariat of Kamo/Камо (?) city.

Kamo city (if it is indeed Kamo - hard to tell) is in Armenia ;)

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Actually looking at marauders set three years later I must say that case he showed came from [00s;early 20s] period of time and order from early 30s, so I was wrong when I stated that "this piece came straight from Meiji era"