Bob

Here a group of documents that belonged to a partisan of the 1921 revolution called Yondon Luvsanperenlei. The group consists of 10 documents: 1. 1950s red covered partisan’s certificate. The page with the name of the partisan and other details are well preserved but unfortunately the front page with the photo is missing. Other pages including the partisan’s privileges and rules are present. The documented is dated 1958 and has some personal notes on the inside of the cover dated 1979. 2. Red covered soum (Batsumber county of Tuv aimag) people's deputy ID card. It depicts the photo of Luvsanperenlei wearing military officer's uniform with the ribbons of awards on his left chest. Dated 1967. 3. Red covered soum (Batsumber county of Tuv aimag) people's deputy ID card which depicts him on a photo wearing his military officer's uniform with the orders and medals on his chest. Dated 1969 4. Brown covered document of the retired officer of the Military and Public Security Ministry issued in 1959. The document depicts the photo of him with ribbons of awards on his chest. It states that Captain Luvsanperenlei worked for the Border guard and Public security division as Chief of Border guard outpost and Chief of Fire brigade unit since 1921 and retired in 1954. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-679-0-80188800-1424375865.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-679-0-18758300-1424375872.jpg 5. Blue covered document of the member of the fire-fighting and prevention group. Issued by the Department of the Fire-fighting. Dated 1966. The doc also has his photo and notably his partisan badge is clearly visible under the award ribbons. 6. Blue covered document certifying that partisan, worker of Batsumber Agricultural Farm and Member of Socialist Labor Brigade Yondon Luvsanperenlei is Honorary pioneer member of high school of Hujirt soum of Uvurhangai province. Signed by the Director and Principal of the school. This document was probably originally printed for awarding the honor students but was converted to this purpose by the school administration. The depiction of the badge of the Excellent student was scratched off of the front cover. 7. Large red-covered document of the Honorary Pioneer of Uvurhangai province (#1). Registered as Honorary Pioneer of the province by Pioneer Committee of the same province on January 10, 1974. 8. Red covered (gold lettered) ID card of employee of the Department of Police (#21) that belonged to Luvsanperenlei. The ID card is prolonged from 1975 till the end of 1977. The bearer’s photo is removed. 9. Red covered certificate of the member of the Socialist Labor Brigade and the Bearer of the badge (#58). The document is issued by the trade Union Committee and Revolutionary Youth Committee of Tuv province. 10. Last but not least is his document of the Medal of 25th anniversary of revolution for the medal with serial number 9307. Unfortunately, no orders, medals or badges came with this group but the pic's indicate this partisan has been awarded the Order of Sukhbaatar, the Order of Red Banner of Combat valor, two Orders of Combat Valor, two Honorary Medals of Combat, Halhin gol badge, Badge of 15th anniversary of revolution and other anniversary medals. From the timing of the documents it appears he was awarded the Order of Sukhbaatar by 1959 which is relatively early - proof that he was a "weighty" guy among the partisans. Will also be posting pics of his description in the 3 part Partisans book and eventually a translation.

Awaiting more info and will post detailed scans of the document once it arrives. A bit more on Purevjal: A book on the Mongolian Airforce has his name without the first name. Apparently he was sent with a group of planes to Western Mongolia to fight the Kazakh invaders in 1935. Purevjal may have died at the end of 1939/early 1940. This is not (yet) confirmed though without reliable documents. The fact is though that his order certificate has not been replaced with later type common Order and Medal Booklet and absence of his first name supports that conclusion. But again, no documents to prove that (sofar).

And here a translation of the ukaz on awarding Purevjal for his role in the border conflict in 1936. It appears that aviation and artillery played a key role in the success of the conflict. Purevjal's skills were probably very important in ensuring the smooth operation of the fighter and bomber planes that strafed and bombed the Japanese. For sure there were other technicians, including Soviet and Mongolian and also other rear supply people but only Purevjal was awarded the order. That says a lot about his efforts. ================================================================= March 31, 1936 Decree #11 of the Presidium of State Small Khural of the Mongolian People’s Republic Commander of the Mongolian Armed Forces and Minister of Military Ministry Marshal Demid reported that a group of 200 Japanese and Manju military personnel armed with heavy and light machine guns crossed the border of the Mongolian People’s Republic on 8 trucks and subsequently attacked the border guard outpost stationed at Adag Dulaan. Our brave soldiers, commanders and political commissars successfully repelled the attacks of the enemy forces and inflicted heavy casualties to their personnel and vehicles. As a result of skillful and brave actions of our soldiers, some enemy officers and their vehicles were captured and the remnants of the enemy were forced to retreat to their territory. The actions of pilot Jamba, navigator Lhamsuren, pilot Demberel, navigator Dorj, commander of the outpost Sanjaa, plane technician comrade Purevjal greatly contributed to the success of combat operation and therefore, the above brave comrades are recommended to be awarded with the Orders of the Red Banner of Military Valor and the Order of the Industrial Valor. Pilot Jamba, navigator Lhamsuren, pilot Demberel, navigator Dorj, commander of the outpost Sanjaa, plane technician comrade Purevjal and other 25 commanders and soldiers displayed bravery and heroism in the battle against the Japanese and Manju invading forces. Our brave comrades inflicted heavy losses and casualties to the enemy invaders and proved that Mongolian Revolutionary Army can defend its nation from the aggressions of foreign enemies. Having reviewed the recommendations, the Presidium of State Small Khural of the Mongolian People’s Republic decrees to award the second Orders of the Red Banner of Military Valor to pilot Jamba and pilot Demberel, the first Orders of the Red Banner of Military Valor to navigator Lhamsuren, commander of the Adag Dulaan outpost Sanjaa and navigator Dorj and the Order of Industrial Valor to plane technician Purevjal. The recommendations of other soldiers and commanders who distinguished themselves during this battle have to be received and reviewed by the Military Ministry and the ministry is authorized to bestow the awards. Chairman of the Presidium of State Small Khural (hand-signed) Dogsom Member and the Secretary of the Presidium of State Small Khural (hand-signed) Surahbayar

Eagerly awaiting for a 'new' document to arrive in the mail. It is a rare document... an order certificate that was in use for roughly a year and half (from early 1939 to till 1941) - a transition period certificate and hence rare and not illustrated in the well known books. This certificate was issued to all participants of the Khalkhingol war who were awarded any of the three orders for their feats. Also, the government issued this certificate to some surviving awardees of orders by 1939 and those who were awarded from early 1939 till 1941. The certificate was replaced by red hard-cover Order and Medal Booklets (known as 1940 type) and the paperback certificate was withdrawn from the awardees (as it happened with the 1926 and 1931 type ORBCV, OIV and OPS). The specimen coming my way was issued to Comrade Purevjal who was awarded the Order of Industrial Valor for his participation in the border conflict in Eastern Mongolia on March 31, 1936. The date of issue is March 14, 1939. I have already received some research information on this incident and a copy of the ukaz listing all awardees. Purevjal's name is among the awardees. For some reason, the name of order was entered incorrectly on the certificate. It shows his name and date of award correctly but the name of award is entered as "Military Valor Order" whereas it should be "Industrial Valor". The document has serial number 255 and is hand signed by Chairman of Presidium of State Small Khural Dogsom and Secretary Damdinsuren. Both of these comrades were purged. Dogsom was arrested in July 1939 and was executed by Soviet NKVD in USSR in July 1941. The hand written text reads "Purevjal is awarded for his honest service and active participation in the cause of defending the borders from the military invaders and defeating them". The incident took place at Buir Lake (Khalkhin gol area) near the border outpost on March 29 and 31, 1936. The Mongolian border guards clashed with Japanese forces on March 29 and additional Mongolian and Soviet troops were deployed to force the Japanese out of Mongolian territory. The conflict employed light tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, machine guns and fighter planes. Soviet and Mongolian fighter planes took part in the conflict and comrade Purevjal was one of few Mongolian technicians who served the fighter planes. And the only one awarded the order. http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-679-0-05529100-1423277143.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-679-0-92954100-1423277146.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_02_2015/post-679-0-39709200-1423277150.jpg

Here's a pic I found online - let's see what response comes from the experts on this one

There was one sold over at emedals.com a year or two ago for 1100 USD - wrong ribbon http://www.emedals.com/collectors-gallery/europe/albania/order-of-bravery-1928

Thanks - appreciate the additional detail. This was the one item (to my surprise) which I was still able to putting a winning bid on. Rrumbullaku - what source is that? It sounds like I may have missed a book!

Finally got this - beautiful medal, Order for Bravery, intricate design incl. a hinge. What's interesting is also - and I didn't notice this until I looked at the picture - the signature on the front of the medal right below the chin of Zog. It appears to be the name of the designer of the medal? "P. Turin 14" is my guess - apparently Pierre Turin, a French artist well known for making bronze medals http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-679-0-49294600-1419617017.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-679-0-25271000-1419617024.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-679-0-77792900-1419617027.jpg

Speaking of Sedlatzek, here's a Tamara that I just received. Has a marking on the pin on the reverse: "Friedr. Sedlatzek Berlin" It also came with a piece of ribbon (finally I got some Tamara ribbon) http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-679-0-94273100-1419615235.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_12_2014/post-679-0-01241800-1419615242.jpg

There are new rich buyers entering the market... non-Russian.

I wasn't sure how to interpret that note: a buyer from Kiev didn't pay (odd to mention that or intended to clarify that it's not due to questions on authenticity?) or that the original owner was from Kiev and several buyers didn't pay. The overall orders/medals part was 'light' compared to prior years is my impression. One group caught my eye is one I'd really like to have AND could afford... but I placed a (undoubtedly too low) bid on a single that I'd love to have.

Yep, saw that one too There are forces at play nowadays though which remind me of a certain moment in Soviet collecting...

Well... http://collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=29603 50th Anniversary of the Special Departments of Mongolian State Security, award badge, 1972. In brass, silver plating and enamels. Measures 44.5 mm in overall height, the shield portion is 37.2 mm tall x 25.5 mm wide. Riveted two-piece construction. A very well made and substantial piece. In excellent condition. The enamels and silver finish are perfect. The rivets are tight. The reverse is pristine, with attractive toning to the brass. The screw post is full length, approx. 10 mm, and includes original screw plate. This is an award to one of the active duty officers or veterans of the infamous Special Departments of Mongolian State Security (UAKhB). Just like their Soviet KGB counterpart, Mongolian Special Departments were a highly secretive branch imbedded in the regular military units to serve essentially as a "watchdog". Due to the relatively small size of the Mongolian armed forces, their Special Departments apparently numbered very few members. The badge is extremely rare. /A. Battushig, "Mongolian Orders, Medals & Badges", page 85 fig. D 08 (note, there is a typo in the book and the badge is mistakenly marked as "C 08")/ $950.00

Indeed, nice to see new people joining the Mongolian orders/medals collecting world.

Just saw this on collectrussia.com - 4.400 USD for a pinback SB... ouch! ================ Order of Sukhbaatar, Type 2 (pin back), #861, 1971 issue. Solid 23 K gold, platinum, silver and enamels. Measures 52.4 mm in height, 50.2 mm in width; weighs 58.6 grams. Gold star superimposed on a sunburst of blue enamel, with gray circle in the center and superimposed platinum bust of Sukhbaatar (aka Sukhe-Bator), Mongolian revolutionary leader; above the portrait is the red flag with Sukhbaatar's name in Cyrillic. Engraved serial number 861 to the reverse. Note the number is very low for a pin back type, this specimen is among the first awarded when the pin back version appeared in 1971 (its serial number range starts from 801; unlike Soviet decorations, Orders of Sukhbaatar were issued in strict sequence by the award serial number). Very fine condition. There is a single shallow surface chip to the red banner at its upper edge, not penetrating to gold and neither immediately noticeable nor very detractive. The red enamel has only a few tiny contact marks elsewhere, no substantial wear or buffing, and generally nicely preserved. The blue enamel on the starburst likewise has a few tiny contact marks and flakes but appears essentially perfect to the unaided eye. The grey enamel on the center medallion has a couple of tiny scratches only. The enamels everywhere fully retain original luster and beautiful overall appearance. The gold star has light wear and some dings, mostly to the upper arm and lower edges. The tips of the star nicely defined, without bumps. The platinum bas-relief has minor surface wear only, its details are very well defined and crisp. The Order of Sukhbaarar was the highest decoration of Mongolian People's Republic, equivalent of the Soviet Order of Lenin. Unlike the Lenin however, the Shukhbaatar was issued in very small numbers. Based on currently available research data, no more than 1300 of the Type 2 pin backs in gold and platinum were ever produced.

Not yet - they're being shipped to country A while I am in country B. Should get my hands on it around Christmas time - very fitting:) I'll post once I've got them.

http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2014/post-679-0-57450600-1415586907.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_11_2014/post-679-0-66434300-1415586929.jpg Here's a tiny (smaller than a finger nail) miniature I just received - 1940-44 Skanderbeg Grand Cross Breast Star. The reverse is nicer than one would expect on such a small one with clear makers inscription.

Heads up: profile name "boysodo" may be trying to sell the same ribbon bars... I suspect it's the same jerk again Just looked up bazoknowsdeals profile and his feedback to others on eBay is often very similarly phrased as the new profile, there's a few other subtle ways to identify him as well... I'd suggest to stay clear from boysodo, I'm 99.99% certain he's the fraud again

Unfortunately nothing

https://www.kuenker.de/en/auktionen/stuecke/253-257?suchbegriff=albanie&x=12&y=12 Some real beauties in the recent Kuenker auction. Wish I'd bid higher for the small miniature chain. Still managed to get one nice Albanian item and something else which is special. Pics upon receipt!

Here a picture of Minjuur (on the right) with one of the best camel herders of the Gobi desert on the left

and decree on awarding colonel Shadavtsoodol with the Order of Red Banner of Combat Valor: DECREE OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE PEOPLE’S GREAT KHURAL OF THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC August 28, 1967. # 121, Ulaanbaatar On awarding the generals, officers and non-commissioned officers of the Mongolian People’s Army with Orders and Medals. The Presidium of the People’s Great Khural decrees: Based on the Decree # 127 issued in 1965 by the Presidium of People’s Great Khural, to award the following generals, officers, non-commissioned officers with the orders and medals of the Mongolian People’s Army for years of outstanding service. The Order of Sukhbaatar 1. Navaan Baasan Chief of Intelligence Department of the People’s Military Ministry, Colonel 2. Bat Namhai Chief of the Armored Vehicle Division of the same ministry, Colonel 3. Sanduijav Choijil Chief of the Central Military Hospital, Colonel 4. Morhuu Janchivdorj Chief of the Anti-Infectious disease division of the same hospital, Colonel 5. Maam Gombosuren Chief of the Military Division of Arhangai province, Colonel 6. Luvsantseren Jambal Aviation technician of Khuvsgul province airport, Major 7. Batjargal Bat-Ochir First pilot of the air squad # 2, Central airport, Lt. Colonel The Order of the Red Banner of Combat Valor 1. Luvsan Jamgan First Deputy of the Chief of General Staff and Chief of Operations Division, Colonel 2. Osor Serdar Chief of the Artillery Division of the same ministry, Colonel 3. Naidan Luvsansharav Deputy Chief of the Division #9 of the same ministry 4. Dashi Sharav Weapons Inspector of the Inspection Division of the same ministry 5. Bodi Lhamsuren Senior Officer of the Rear and supply Division, Lt. Colonel 6. Batjargal Dashi Deputy Chief of the “Aldar” Military sport club, Lt. Colonel 7. Dondov Dashi Chief of the Horse training center, Lt. Colonel 8. Butach Gendenpil Deputy Chief in charge of the rear and supply, Central Military University, Lt. Colonel 9. Sharavjamts Shadavtsoodol Weapons trainer of the same University, Lt. Colonel

A very interesting photograph now. Taken in 1952, during Choibalsan's funeral ceremony in UB. Right to left on the front row: - Member of Politburo Damba - Tsedenbal - Widow of Choibalsan - Choibalsans son and daughter (probably a book can be written about them too... I wonder where they are now) - Chairman Bumtsend - Party Secretary Surenjav - and Sodnomdarjaa!

MG S. Baldan and Lt. General Lhagvasuren. Probably taken in 1946 or 1947.