Bob

As Mongolia didn't have enough awards already: The highest award of the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry Explanation of Khiimori - the Spirit The spirit is the secret power of the human mind influenced pleasantly from the eternal heaven and the stars to any person for overcoming any bad things or difficulties easily and living with full happiness. The person with spirit is fortunate person whose life and work is successful.

One of the more rare orders. All 3 classes. Judging from the condition, I suspect - similar to Mongolia - in Albania there's also been a bit of a sell-off at the local medal vault at central bank. In fact, the fact that so few Albanian awards are on the market and even FEWER award booklets... makes you wonder where there were even any close to significant numbers of these awards awarded at all? In any case, a nice award. Almost a bit "modern" looking depiction of the typical black eagle emblem. And an ingenious way to attach the front shield to the award!

To some extent these super highpriced items are a "marketing tool" though. If you are in the market for a Tractor Lenin... you'll probably manage to find your way to these dealers ANYWAY. Putting them on their websites is a surefire way to get "mere mortals" coming back again and again though to browse their website.

Yep. I was lucky to spot this variant on eBay where i bought it (to sellers: providing quality pictures makes it easier for buyers!)

Here then pics of a higher quality version. The differences are very clear: - in general, much sharper defined lines / finishing - lighter colored red enamel - ring seperately attached to main piece - different pin attachment - etc.

As per good Mongolian "tradition", I think this calls for a special badge to be issued Congrats - 1 more collector of Mongolian awards added to the universe

JSTOR: Mongolia 1978: Continuing the TransitionIn two symbolic gestures in 1978, Mongolia awarded its highest medal, the Order of Sukhe Bator, to CPSU Politburo members Suslov, Andropov, and Ustinov and ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0004-4687(197901)19%3A1%3C58%3AM1CTT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A - Similar pages [ More results from links.jstor.org ] Anybody with access to above site? Also more interesting stuff to be found there: JSTOR: Mongolia in the Sino-Soviet DisputeOn March 20, Malinovsky and Colonel-General Pliev (and not General Hsu) received the Mongolian decoration, "Order of Sukhe Bator." In May, July, and August ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0305-7410(196310%2F12)16%3C75%3AMITSD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K - Similar pages

Sunday's are always good to flip through Dr B's book and this time what sparked my interest was the awards that Tsedenbal has (page 21). In particular: 3 Bulgarian Dimitrov orders!?! Never realized that Mongolia had such close ties to Bulgaria of all places. That's more than his modest 2 Order of Lenin's How about identifying the awards on the other side of his jacket?

There's one somewhat similar to this one on eBay right now. May be a path to get some answers. MONGOLIAN PRELIMINARY OFFICER CERTIFICATE. Item number: 190045580522

Hi JC, Well, it's at least nice to know that the one from 2 months ago went to somebody here on the forum:) I went for the boxed Order of Red Banner of Military Valor + I supplemented it with a nice Bulgarian Dimitrov miniature to add to the early edition Dimitrov Order I have in my collection (although I am not sure whether the early orders were actually issued with a miniature). Not it's just waiting for the mailman to arrive:) Bob

Recently found another one for sale on a German dealers site. 2K USD as well. On the other hand, can't think of an award which is more deserving of the term "eye candy" than an SB.

These are quite rare. Think I've only seen one on eBay a few weeks ago and that was it. Perhaps Mongolian women don't hawk their awards like the Mongolian men do?

Albanian mothers got a pretty good deal when you compare these awards with the Soviet equivalents.

Too late again Now I had to run off and buy something else again... I should have noticed the warning on Alexei's website the first time I entered It makes you wonder though, how many collectors of shockworker badges from the exotic country of Mongolia exist? And why aren't they all on this forum!

Came back to this old thread after looking at following old thread on another forum: http://www.soviet-awards.com/forum/showthr...3621&page=7 Makes one wonder about the red boxes: - first, why are there so few of them? If you received an award in a nice red box wouldn't you take just as good care of the box? - secondly, were these cardboard (see the link) boxes purely used at the mint or is that how people would get them? In last case, where'd they then get the red box from? Simple questions but difficult to answer

You've identified a great new dot-com business model: a website which triggers you as soon as another website starts updating I'm just hoping that this time I was quick enough to get the bronze udarnik!

Thanks - clears things up. Good translation site. Makes it now also a lot easier to read the other items on your site:)

Great These are then the socalled Paul Meybauer variants. Here's dimensions of the "first class" one in my possession: - Diameter of the star : 71.5 mm (vertical) and 70.95 mm (horizontal) - Diameter of the center medallion : 27.35 mm - Weight : 41.2 gr Such info can be useful when auction catalogue doesn't show a pic so you have to guess from dimensions what type it might be...

Great information on this booklet. It is indeed very difficult to obtain award documents... but if I'm every in the situation to pass up on one I'll certainly shoot them over to you (to be honest, doubt that there would be much more people interested in them in the first place:)). Albanian awards are certainly a bit of an enigma!

And at 1800 GBP in auction a little bit too expensive for my liking at this moment. Buying an appartment and awards at the same time don't really go together very well The upside, finally room to arrange for a good display of what I already have in the future

http://www.worldmedal.com/medal.asp?lmid=283&yjlmid=263 Interesting to see an item I own with pic's from the previous owner on a site I've never visited before...

Hopefully this adds some life back into the forum

And here an award document apparently awarded to an Albanian woman. Unfortunately, not able to find any info on this person. What this forum needs also is somebody who can translate this:)

And here a variation of the order

Here's two IKOM order's of freedom. I tell you, those 3rd class ones are a bit odd because they do have some kind of goldish wash over them which makes it appear to be 1st class. Note the nice screwplates.