Bob

Cover.

PS. Who here bought the new Partisan badge +doc from Alexei????

Come on, own up!!! that's the 2nd one I've missed and I put my order in within 6 minutes!!!

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!

Hi bob

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...=en&ie=UTF8

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 document - I need to get some award documents for my collection. If you ever pass up on any, send them my way

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?

ANS sale at M&E

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

I'm not here to start forum wars.

To paraphrase John Steinbeck: "forum wars are just like ice hockey, there are no winners... only survivors"

Doesn't look new to me

And here another recent one but now oddly enough made out of "heavy" metal. Really difficult to see, apart from the design principles, some logical trend here!

And now there really is only 1 available on dealers sites... close to 2K!!!

Remember the "good old" days?

Hi Eric, in your extensive research efforts, have you also run across a good overview of modern day Albanian awards?

Let me give an example:

http://securingamerica.com/printready/prin...ternational.htm

http://securingamerica.com/node/985

General Wesley Clark was awarded a Skanderbeg... and it looks awfully similar to the one from communist times. What implications could this have?

Hi Eric - you sure know a lot about Albanian awards... even badges!

Attached some lower end ones. Not particularly striking in quality or design but still nice to add here.

Nothing special on reverse... just a pin.

From left to right:

- KS 17 N?ntori - TIRANA SPORT CLUB

- FOR THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE "Bashkimi" (The Union)magazine. Official journal of the Democratic Albanian Front under the communist regime

- 50th ANIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION FROM THE NAZI-FASCIST-OCCUPATION

Perhaps I should return to Albania once. Have travelled there before and loved it (you start to really appreciate those little pill boxes spread throughout the country:)). And the reception at the airport was very nice as well... the plane was surrounded by snipers! Turned out that the president was about to fly in on a different plane from a trip abroad:)

Here is the correct pic then. Note: the ring is applied seperately to the medal.

It is a bit of a gamble... I've paid amounts which I though were very nice, only to then see 2 weeks later a ridiculous low price elsewhere.

Signs of an immature market still I guess.

http://www.emedals.ca/catalog.asp?item=IO180#bigPic

Is it just missing the enamel or a crazy variation?