Bob

Received this a few days ago - familiar little badge, but this time WITH document and apparently also cased. Anything interesting from the translation?

Pic above was wrong one of course...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Museum_of_the_Chinese_People's_Revolution Visited this great museum around Xmas time. It was EXTREMELY cold (a Chinese colleague had told me it was nice and sunny in Beijing and I had neglected to look up what that would mean temperature wise... let's just say wearing a polo shirt with thin pullover was NOT sufficient, it did make a lot of Chinese smile at me because they thought i was crazy to walk around outside like that). Anyway, in that bitter cold i rushed to checkout the Mao mausoleum and then to the military museum before heading back to the airpot for onwards flight to Australia (another great museum there: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=47395&pid=437139&st=0&#entry437139) I think pics of the Beijing museum have been posted before, but not yet of the top floor which focusses on the Korean war. Interesting to read there that China came to the help of the Koreans attached by US, while reading in the Canberra museum a week later that it was the Ozzies who came to the help of Korea against the attach by the Chinese etc.) Anyway - some DPRK relevant pics... all fake i think (unfortunately) Any chinese translation help would be much appreciated - more than curious as to what made these guys earn their DPRK awards:)

I suspect this will be a case of praying for research (and hoping for a positive outcome!)

A clue?

A whopping 36 pages of text in this booklet!

Serial nrs: - 516 - 586 and 2390 for the regular red banners

Will be posting a type 1/2 booklet here later today - a group just arrived by mail (well, I'm assuming it's a group). If it is, would contain 3 orders and it comes with a fully uighuir script award booklet. No picture (and i can't read uighuir)... but there appears to be a clue in the form of a name written in cyrillic on the inside cover of the front page. Ink is faded (and my cyrillic isn't that great...) but it appears to be: "Cogvoi H.C." Pics to follow.

While interesting to see, i have to say it's a shake that "old style" design is being left behind. I can understand not putting Choibalsan on a medal anymore and perhaps updating some of the symobolism, but would much rather prefer some continuity in design (and quality!) of awards. If not, they tend to lose character and become more or less generic awards which could be used for just about any country. I guess this is called progress though and I'm just conservative... happens as you get older :blush:

And here our man is slightly older

Just finished with my first multi-hour reading (and viewing) session of this book - many more to follow I'm sure. To start with the summary: this is an OUTSTANDING piece of work. I can highly recommend it to all with an interest in Mongolian awards as well as those with an interest in Soviet awards: - wonderful pictures (both of awards, documents and recipients) - immense amount of detail on award regulations, types/variations, awardees, serial numbers, manufacturing sources, etc. - LOTS of interesting facts I will have to take another weekend along with my "vault" of awards at home to walk through the book in detail and write down all my comments, questions (e.g. why was Dandar's hero title revoked?), and come back to GMIC for discussion. Highly recommended!