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Hi Steve, Frankly I will be more than happy if all these "flat pin" badges and "light" badges turn out to be originals ... Because you see I also have these in my collection Unfortunately lately I become very suspicious about their provenance. As per today I don't have definitive proof that these are fakes (that's why "?") excerpt that a) some of these badges don't have any signs of wear and looks suspiciously "fresh" b) when they are not a) these signs of wear often look like they were artificially added by some "enthusiast" c) badges with flat pin often sold in Japan as copies (and their hummer prices usually correspond to this status) d) I can't find any evidence (photo or others) that these badges are "late war" badges e) if these are indeed "late war" badges, then there are too many of them around (at least for my money) Yes, but what about "flat pin" Manchu pilot badge (was shown in posts # 53)?! (Sometimes I heard this argument). Well, my answer will be simple - according to the official line drawing from Match 1940 original badge should have different pin on reverse + two raws of kanji Regards, Nick

China Incident medal?! What a strange choice of doc's... Lower classes of orders and banal medals. Guess these guys simply don't have in their possession higher classes/rare medals. Otherwise Couldn't agree more!

Hi Satsuma, nice fourth class in the case for nobles and foreigners. For more info about these cases see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/56850-japanese-orders-in-tamatebako-miyake-boxes-for-nobles-and-foreigners/ It's hard to date your order by this photo (we need close-ups of obverse and reverse). I'd say it came from [1900s ; 1910s] time period. Regards, Nick

And not very knowledgeable businessmen I must add ... 6th class?! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japanese-Medal-Certificate-Order-Golden-Kite-Sixth-Class-1890-/321258605237?pt=AU_Militaria&hash=item4acc814ab5

Antiques ...

Ugh! Looks like a copy that was made by colour xerox (another possibility - scanned and printed original doc, but due to its stated size I am thinking "xerox" ) Businessmen are everywhere ...

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Interesting Ushakov

Details

Ukrainian Labour Red Banner that so successfully is selling for many years by western auction houses ...

New example of door-plate. This one belong to the Osaka Branch of Association.

Close-up`s

Better photos of group from post #94 Reverse

Let`s add this baby to our gallery (ribbon is obviously from "foundation" medal)

Old, mint and pretty cheap "friends"!

Hurry up!!! 2 hours till the end and the price is already $600!!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/321262271548#ht_126wt_888 28 bids!

Perfect circle!

P.S. Currently among his treasures this beautiful 2nd class Kutuzov Amazing enamel!

Cross in posts # 1-3 and medal in posts # 8-10 were recently sold at eBay for $547 and $769 respectively. Straight from Geneva, Switzerland by seller with speaking name stopoff

Super!