Bob

here we go

Received my copy today. It is indeed a paperback and black and white. Size is half A4. 51 pages of which the last 15 or so drawings of the various awards (nothing special here - Bat's book has it all in color photographs so much better). The book is in Russian. This is annoying because the other 36 pages give a tremendous amount of written detail about the various awards. Perhaps the most I've seen documented - but again, in Russian Also contains some charts which appear to give an indication of metal content per award or perhaps size. Odd strings of numbers which I can't interpret with my limited (da / njet) Russian. I will post some scans later. All in all, if you can read Russian, a great book probably because of the many details documented in it per award. Otherwise... well... for the completists:)

Will post scans once I receive my copy. In the meantime: Item number: 8388566492 Had the name of the author wrong from memory:)

The Voronov book mentioned in back of Herfurth catalogue is up for auction on eBay. I got a copy (anxiously waiting for it to arrive) a few weeks ago. Dealer has second one on eBay right now.

Well, nobody can control what demand does, but I do know that supply on some items is controlled... forever. If only 400 items of a certain award exist... low or high demand will not change that. Might have some effect on price, but it'll always be difficult to get. Better get it now is my thinking then

Item number: 8384074119 Hahaha - talk about excessive inflation!

At the same time, more and more interesting items popping up recently. Been offered order of precious rod, one of the early 20's orders, etc. I wonder how the ratio supply/demand currently REALLY is. Mongolian items are a small collectors circle... not too many people willing to pay many thousands of USD for an award.

If you can even find them. Right now I only know of one publicaly available for sale SB. Happy to give name of website to anyone - PM me. Equally happy to hear where else on dealers sites others may be available.

Dr B confirmed it to me - that should give reasonable assurance:) What's more interesting: such an abundance of KG awards for sale... yet so few booklets. Perhaps they were only given until after the KG award became a medal vs. a badge?

Thanks - I now double checked with other award booklets I had (was being lazy before ) and you are correct. What the internet needs is a place to link up award booklets with awards!

FYI - pics of booklet

and last scan... what would be helpful: link to a website containing all award names in russian / mongolian script?

and number 4

and number 3

And here is scan number 2

OK - I'll start off... have an award booklet which I'm not able to trace to a specific order. The 3 red words (3rd or 4th scan) which gives details on date / number but also on award should clarify. I understand that the word "gold" is in it... so what award is it then?

And here's the inside. The seal is of the ministry of defense.

I do have a document in my possession. Faded on the outside - probably not visible on scan but there are traces of goldish colored letters / symbols on the cover. The number 29 (i.e. 1939?) is in the inside of the booklet.

Here we go then: new low... no 342 This has got to be the most beautiful item in my collection.

Just in - pinback no 1966

Paid something like 5 euro's for it. Was more a "WHY NOT?" effect

Here you go. Please don't bombard with pics UNLESS it's a different type or if same type but new high/low. After all, I think we all know what this order looks like:)

Supposedly (but perhaps I'm not up to date) four variations: A 200 49,238 screwback, hand-engraved (mine: 44245 / 15709) B 52,404 169,768 screwback, rotating-tool engraved no (mine: 103150) C 144,726 200,305 order-type pinback (mine: 170984) D 182,119 197,517 simplified small pinback (mine... surprise: 179876) Any types I missed? Please add pic! My pics to follow for above four types.

Well, let's face it... you have to be quite a numbers fetisjist to enjoy looking at a 40th MPR just because it has a low number. Not exactly a medal which has a large "WOW" effect:)

Let's get this complete. Based on input I've read sofar, there are three variations: A 19 - 9,176 being the screwback, hand-engraved B 14,122 - 86,844 screwback, rotating-tool engraved no (mine: 18,691) C 59,906 - 60,054 pinback I've attached a pic of type B. Any types missing? Please add pics! Seperate thread to follow for 2nd class.