Bob

And, as you can guess... I'll be keeping my eye open for SB nr 500!

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Another interesting document!

Here's a 3 country group!

Of interest is the victory medal as I hope maybe somebody can translate the (Russian) text at the bottom?

Just in - nice brown udarnik doc with pic!

Hello Bob,

I would like it.

Doc

Sorry Doc, already gone Hauptman... this badge came to me from Berlin, and will now head to North Dakota!

Servus Uwe

And thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I guess they didn't ask it back because nobody bid on it:)

I'll put it in the lounge as a "freeby" for whoever wants it (maybe you?)

I'm heading eastwards in a few weeks and have flexibility to drive around. I've seen a type 1 in Tirana (nice to hold it in my hands )

Besides that one (in a collectors hands) there apparently is also one in the State Library if I'm not mistaken.

So, the other ones:

- Hungarian War Museum - a www link?

- wasn't there also one in Vienna?

- others?

Hello gentlemans,

1945-1949, First type: Urdhri HERO KOMBETAR (National Hero Order),

1949-1954, Second type: Urdhri HERO I POPULLIT (Peoples Hero Order),

1954-1990, Star: Titulli HERO I POPULLIT (Peoples Hero Title)

regards,

Artan

Hello Artan - could you show a scan of the real deal (front + reverse) please? I understand you may want to save it for the book. We will appreciate it either way :cheers:

Won an auction in Germany but they sent me the wrong item. They're going to send me the right item... and have allowed me to keep the wrong one (which probably means it ain't worth much ). Now, what is it?

Educated guess would hint at Deutsche Jagd Verein perhaps?

Reverse reads: "Ges. Gesch. ST.&L."

Any idea if it's worth something?

Thanks!

Looking at the center medaillon in greater detail, theres traces of white (enamel?) stuck in various places. What on earth could this be?

Back to the "good looking" Tamara

Just got this in - surprised at how shiny it is.

Nice

Reverse please? :cheers:

RECENTLY SOLD

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- USD 795, nr 857, www.collectrussia.com - 1998

- USD 740, nr 1.938, www.collectrussia.com - 1999

- USD 780, nr ?, www.collectrussia.com - 2002

- USD 945, nr 1.233, www.collectrussia.com - 2004

- USD 1.870, nr 1.918, Nota Bene - JANUARY 2007

- USD 1.880, nr 1.785, Nota Bene - JANUARY 2007 (boxed)

- USD 1.950, nr 860, www.russianglory.com - MARCH 2007

- EURO 1.600 (roughly 2.100 USD), nr 1.183, www.huesken.com - MARCH 2007

- EURO 1.650 (roughly 2.200 USD), nr 1.514, www.huesken.com - JUNE 2007

- EURO 1.300 (roughly 1.700 USD), nr 1.246, private seller - SEPTEMBER 2007

- EURO 1.600 (roughly 2.200 USD - before fees!), nr 1.514, Andreas Thies October auction - OCTOBER 2007

- USD 1.850, nr 1.947, Nota Bene - NOVEMBER 2007

- USD 2.150, nr 1.837, www.collectrussia.com - NOVEMBER 2007

- USD 1.950, nr 1.437, Nota Bene - JANUARY 2008

- USD 2.000 (excl. 15% auction premium), nr 1,246, Dmitry Markov auction - JANUARY 2008

- USD 1.925, nr 902, eBay - FEBRUARY 2008

- USD 2.200, nr 1.617, somewhere in Russia - MARCH 2008

- USD 2.750, nr 1.635, www.collectrussia.com - MARCH 2008

- USD 2.750, nr 860, Nota Bene - APRIL 2008

- USD 3.200, nr 1.600, www.collectrussia.com - APRIL 2008

- USD 2.250, nr 1.388, Nota Bene - January 2009

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- USD 820, nr ?, www.collectrussia.com - 1998

- USD 1.375, nr 89, www.collectrussia.com - 2003

- USD 985, nr 523, www.collectrussia.com - 2004

- USD 1.150, nr 519, www.collectrussia.com - 2004

- USD 1.680, nr 644, Nota Bene - NOVEMBER 2006

- EUR 1.630 (roughly 2.150 USD), nr 585, Albert GMIC - MAY 2007

- USD 2.650, nr 644 (again!), Nota Bene - OCTOBER 2007 (boxed)

- USD 2.900, nr 640, www.collectrussia.com - NOVEMBER 2007

- USD 2.500, nr 777, somewhere in Russia - DECEMBER 2007

- USD 3.250 (excl. 15% auction premium), nr 427, Dmitry Markov auction - JANUARY 2008

- USD 3.225, nr 556, private seller - MAY 2008

- USD 3.500, nr 261, Coinsell (on eBay) - SEPTEMBER 2008

CURRENTLY FOR SALE

- USD 5.800, nr 448 (screwback), www.collectrussia.com

http://www.collectrussia.com/DISPITEM.HTM?ITEM=20142

always nice to see documented ones!

I didn't bid this time around.

Don't recall exactly how long it took me to get my items last time. 12 months or so if I'm not mistaken.

What worked for me (but who knows, maybe different people get different service) in the end was exposing him by putting other dealers (co-organizers of the auction) on CC of my emails...

2398 Badge ?To the honorary employee of Government Security of Mongolia?. Award #

5 (!!). Silver. Hallmarked (916). Maker?s mark. Screwback. Quality multi-piece

construction with magnificent multi-color enamels. Hallmarked. Engraved serial number

and ? on reverse. Original silver nut. Shows minor signs of wear, tiny enamel chips.

Good vintage condition otherwise. Rare an of the high interest with so low number ---> 1000 USD excl markup etc

2475 Order of Sukhbaatar. Type 2. Award # 1685. Gold and silver. Pinback type. Multi-piece

construction, multi-color enamels. Batt 20-b $ 1,250 ---> 2000 USD excl markup etc

Not very outrageous

Received the book.

Around 90 pages with lots of pics and, unfortunately in Mongolian, text. Suspect the text is largely describing the orders/medals but who knows there might be new info in there. The pics of the orders/medals aren't that great (not all sharp, no reverse) but some good pics of e.g. the recent medals not easily found (Order of Genghis Khan). The "prize" of the book for me is the pics of the recipients - quite a lot of them, very appealing. Whether that's really worth the high price for this book... probably not unless you are a diehard completist (which I suspect quite a few on this forum will be:)).

Certainly not a must have, but a nice to have especially during these quiet collecting times.

I think the first one is from Yemen, not Angola

Did you know that Voyager 1, was sent into space with a gold disc inside it, with a map of how to get to Earth and various other tit bits for use, on the off chance that aliens might find it.

Its true, honest!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

This whole story about ships going into space is not true. A hoax. I thought this was widely accepted by now.

Just kidding

Why gold though?

With prices dropping (e.g. the labour cavelier set on collectrussia, recent auctions, etc.) I might be tempted to jump in and get that documented group incl. order of lenin that I'd still like to add to my collection... am wondering, what are the "big" upcoming Soviet auctions?

- the new york sale http://www.russian-medals.net/

- wasn't medalhouse also organizing an auction soon?

- others?

Thanks

Hi there bifter,

The difficulty with Albanian awards is that it's not (yet) a very transparent liquid market. It's still unclear what the volume o each award (type) is, there's not that many collectors, material (coming out of Albania) is haphazard... if you look at eBay (for example) one week there's absolutely nothing, the other week there's a sudden surge of good stuff. Then out of the blue an auction in Italy comes along, etc. On the Italy auction, a good example is the gold Ikom Skanderbeg... off the top of my head it went for over 2000 Euros while an Albanian friend indicated a much lower amount (and in USD) would be reasonable. But it's impossible to say because I've only seen one of these come up for sale! For the most rare Albanian items that's certainly the case... it's whatever the biggest "fool" will pay or it.

For the more common items, I'd say that eBay prices are generally a reasonable direction. But here again, I've been both burnt (overpaying for what I thought at the time was very rare) but also gotten great deals (because it wasn't clear yet what a rare variation was being ofered for sale).

Some of your prices seem a bit high, some a bit low, but that doesn't help you much I'm afraid:(

Happy Albania collecting!

Starting to get tempting...

Hi Bob

Did you eventually get the M?daille de la Reconnaissance fran?aise you wanted ?. If not, you could try the Paris Mint where they are for sale practically at cost + VAT.

Greetings

Veteran

Yep - although that Paris Mint tip is a useful one! :)