Bob

I put her items on my watch list and have asked her to put the complete set up for auction again because it is worth much more as 1 group and i am eager to bid >15k for the combined group. Of course, I am not ACTUALLY going to bid on it, just having a little fun at the expense of the destroyer of history. :43:

Maybe it is a case of "i kicked ass as a partisan and all I got for it was this lousy badge" This is always the difficulty of collecint, at some point it is letting go. I have been thinking last weeks about actually selling my entire Mongolian collection in a year or 2-3, paying down mortgage, and focussing purely on Albanian. Wasn't able to make up my mind, but not as "attached" to material items anymore as in the past, including my medals collection.

Documented nr 260

Just in a documented one (incl. case a and ribbon; no date on the doc unfortunately), could somebody help out with the name?

I took the dive and got a foreign one. May live to regret it someday, but at least have it in hand in my collection now. Scans to follow tomorrow.

Items now in my possession and group held intact (who knows what more is out there of course). There's something about these deputy badges which just makes them very nice.

Excellent Taras! GMIC never ceases to amaze me! :)

That could indeed also be a possibility :cheers:

Interesting point. Just guessing: - could be due to the country of manufacture influencing the design? - could be due to Yemen... how shall i put it... not being the most modern of societies and therefore still using old weapons?

Mmm scary thought that things could be even more expensive once recession is over:( It puzzles me why there's so few type 1 polar stars ever for sale. It seems like there's always a Soyombo or two on the market somewhere, but type 1 polar star... virtually never.

Nice to see SB is being kept company! All that's missing is a Dimitrov from Bulgaria?:)

1977 - can you enlighten me (us)? You have the Lenin in your possession and have had research done on it?

Hello Dolf, yes I got it boxed - in the exact same box that you had it in when it was in your hands. The Soyombo doesn't have the same eye candy appeal as say a SB or Lenin etc. but precisely because of its simplicity I think it is a timeless design. It'll never look "outdated" in my eyes. The issue with it (just like say the unselfishness medal) is that unless substantial new reliable information becomes available from UB, it will be impractical to continue acquiring these as it (at least for me) has become virtually impossible too often to tell the good from the bad out there. Anyway, I'd rather have research / info from archives and then learn that SOME of my collection is "bad" than to have no research at all.

Hi Dolf, yep the "ugly" one is up top. Of the list of SB's that I'm actively looking for (i.e. specific numbers) the two low numbers belong to the Sodnomdarjaa group (i.e. I have his early Soviet screwpost red banner, http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=36164&hl=sodnomdarjaa&st=0) and they are the ones I'd REALLY love to get my hands on. That'll undoubtedly be difficult though... SB's with that low numbers aren't on the market often, and certainly not at sane prices. E.g. collectrussia now as nr 607 for sale for 4900,- USD. In my eyes, that's really excessive in the current market... on the other hand, there's not another one for sale right now (aside from that pinback on eBay the other day) so who can blame Igor? Unforunately, pepoel do refer to his prices as the standard... so probably my SB collecting days are over, I'll be happy with what I have now. Although, there are still 1-2 items for which I'd break the bank... a hero star (i regret not bidding when one was up for auction a year ago) and a type 1 Polar Star for example. Thanks for your other comments - I guess (and guess is all it is) that roughly 2100 "classic" SB's exist... time will tell:) SB's are amazingly beautiful, and one can only hope for someday also being able to research them!

Last one for now again 373 for reference

And now back to 373 - type 1

Obverse (again: 413 vs 420) Flames look identical; so does the fact that the eyelet is slightly offcenter to the left on both

Remember, the weights of these 2 are different, yet they still look very very similar

Familiar (enought)?

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