Bob

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.

Some more (from left to right): - The best transport worker badge (note the Uigur script at bottom!) - The outstanding worker of the trade union (numbered!!!) - The outstanding worker of the radio / TV communications - The outstanding cooperator (whatever that means!) Also looking at other badges for sale, it would appear that usage of Uigur script is indicative of the most recent versions of these badges - interesting

A lot of VERY nice stuff on that site! One of the Tamara's shown is in fact the one also depicted in Klietmann's article.

Out of curiosity... has anybody ever seen a Tamara with a mint / manufacturers mark?

Don't know what ANS / M&E mean... link perhaps? Thanx

Just in, and she's a beauty!

The benefit of living in Germany:) Let me know if I can help anybody with info from any one of these. There's a wide range of awards covered - some of which appear to be obscure to say the least!: 1 - Der Furstliche Hausorden "De parfaite amitie" von Thurn und Taxis 2 - Geschichte des Eisernen Kreuzes von 1939 3 - Der Orden "Michaels des Tapferen" 4 - Das bohmische Adelskreuz von 1814 5 - Das Furstlich Isenburg-Birsteinsche Hausorden "pour mes amis" 6 - Das Kroatische Legion und ihre Auszeichnung 1941-1943 7 - Die Protektordekoration des Johanniterordens 8 - La Croix Rouge Francaise 9 - Der Orden von Eisernen Dreiblatt 10 - Die tschechoslowakische Falken-Orden 11 - The Foundation of the most ancient and most noble order of the Thistle 12 - Das Baltenkreuz 13 - Das Ritterkreuz des eisernen Kreuzes 1939 14 - Ordenszeichen und Staatsform 15 - Armelband "Kurland" - die letzte Auszeichnung des Deutschen Wehrmacht vom 12 Marz 1945 16 - Das Ehrenzeichen des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes 1922 bis 1939 17 - Order of the Sacred Crown 18 - Die Barockorden des Grafen Franz Anton Sporck 19 - Un acentry de la decoration du Lys: l"Ordre de la Fleur de lys - 1791 20 - Der "Orden vom 25 Februar 1948" der CSR 21 - Der Deutsche Orden des Grossdeutschen Reiches 1942-1945 22 - Order of the Golden Kite of Japan "Kinshi Kunsho" 23 - Das "Abzeichen" und der "Orden der Konigin Thamar" in Georgien 1916 und 1918 24 - Uber die trageweise der Zeichen des Johanniterordens 25 - Der Orden vom Slowakischen Nationalaufstand 26 - Register fur die Nr 1-25 der Jahre 1958-1964 (i.e. above publications) 27 - Die Orden der SSR von Aserbaidschan 1920 - 1936 28 - 125 Jahre Orden Pour le Merite fur Wissenschaften und Kunste 29 - General Gordon's Khartoum Star

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