Dolf

Here are mine.

Screwback #185, obverse:

Dolf

Dolf,

The reason that I asked is that I have one(Guard's Badge) from the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Belarus. I have another coming in from the New Russian Govt as well. I was given the Cuban badge by a vet who made it to the USA! I would love to find all of these badges from the nations that had them.

Thank you for your help!

REgards

Paul

Paul,

You're right, I forgot about the Cuban Guards Badge. I had seen it already so I knew the Cuban Army also must have some kind of Guards military units, but completely forgot when replying earlier.

But I didn't know of other Guards Badges from other countries, including Belarus!

All 3 Guards Badges I have on my collection, that I mentioned on my PM, are from the Soviet Red Army, btw. 2 from the WWII and post-WWII period and 1 more recent.

Last year I visited a couple of Russian Navy ships (a battleship and a cruiser I believe) that stayed here a few days, and they had some Guards aboard. They were all wearing their Badge, the more recent type (but not the new Russian Federation one), and I was happy to take some pics

Anyway, these Guards Badges are very nice indeed!

Regards,

Dolf

No problem, Dolf, just glad (realy glad) to see you over here!!

Help us disentangle all the mysteries of Mongol awards, please. We know so little. It is fun!

(I shall be asking the fabled Dr. B about this this summer.)

Ed,

Thank you.

I can try my best, but you already have a member who has a great knowledge about Mongolian awards for which I really fall in love about some 3 years ago.

I'm talking of Jan (vatjan) to whom I owe most of the little bit I know. Thank you Jan!

Regards,

Dolf

Well, no, Dolf. The question was about GUARDS (military) badges (similar to the Soviet, Cuban, etc. guards badges discussed by Paul on orther threads here), not BORDER Guards. Border guards we all know.

Ed,

Oh, I'm deeply sorry, I guess I misunderstood the question!

Anyway, I suppose only the Red Army had Guards units, so most probably they are the only ones who have such Badges I guess.

Well, I guess we can find similar military units on other countries (guards were elite units in the Red Army, right?) but I don't know and never heard about similar units in Mongolian Army.

Cheers,

Dolf

While I'm not sure this answers your question, Paul, no such badges are shown in Battushig's fine book.

Ed

Ed,

Mongolian Border Guards Badges?

There are 2 pages full of them in Dr. Battusig's book (pages 88 and 89) ! I guess we do have the same book!

I have myself a small collection of these Border Guards Badges ( 19 in all, counting different types and variations ) as it is a subject I like.

Also like the State Security ones theme, Police, Army and Agriculture, and do have a decent collection on all these themes.

Dolf

Ed,

No problem, not with you anyway

I'm sure you know by now where I listed it on the For Sale section, I believe you were a member too in the past.

Anyway, still a few cheap items for sale there, more to come soon, there or maybe even here, or somewhere else.

Best,

Dolf

Paul and Ed,

Even thought I'm a member of this Forum since some time ago, this is my 1st post here.

I was until very recently the former owner of this piece, which I recently sold to that Chinese dealer.

Would you have been interested in it, I had it in the for sale section of another Forum for some ten days, for half of the price the current owner is asking now! So you missed a wonderful piece for "only" $2,000.00 and with other optional payment methods, including PayPal!...

Be alert next time!

Best wishes,

Dolf

PS: oh, and btw, these pictures are in fact those I took!