Bob

And another new one... Master of Meritorious Sports

Not a medal, not a pin... it's not plastic but not heavy metal either. Flat on reverse.

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Another new one... Master of Sports

Two types are known to exist (RPSH, RPSSH)

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Strange (rare!) variation... bigger than a lapel pin, smaller than the common medal... quite heavy... not clear why this exists!

Right away a documented one... translation pending, but I can assure you it'll be interesting (sigurimi?)

Didn't get the corresponding medal but that'll be fixed soon as well. No way in any case (unnumbered) to assure it's the real corresponding one anyway of course.

Link to Hero of Labor documented group (+ second documented award) to Hoxhollit

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9125&st=0

Will be making several posts here... first of all, a group from the National Historical Museum in Tirana. Documented as in attributed by the museum but not actually with documents included.

Note:

- gold order of the flag

- very rare silver medal remembrance

- and some other items

awarded to Nako Spiru (google to follow)

Have to also look into the cloth ribbon bar belonging to the group!

Interesting (!!!!) addition to my documented Hero of Labor star... ANOTHER document (and thus award) for Hoxhollit!

Will be requesting translation from our Albanian forum friend but I can already hint at the fact that below Order for Distinguished Labor in Agriculture 3rd class was in fact also awarded for his skill in raising goats. Amazing, based on goats alone Hoxhollit progressed nicely through the award tree. Was lucky to get this doc in Tirana and expand the group, who knows of course what else he has been awarded.

In the National Historical Museum in Tirana there's a "wall" of hero's of the people. Photographs / names of all. In total 77 (of which 12 female) which is probably less than the total number of awardees as some hero's were later branded "enemies of the state" and didn't make it to the place in the museum anymore...

Elsewhere in the forum Elvis has posted his list of all hero awardees. Substantially more!

Back from a week's break in Albania... have some interesting things to share on the forum in coming days

Let's start with... the award document to an Albanian Hero Star! Not in my possession (this one stays in Albania) but at least we now know what one looks like. Will ask our Albanian forum friend to translate.

Also, this isn't just "any hero" as Elvis will hopefully be able to clarify.

A rather plain looking folder but with a very nice personalized document inside.

reverse

Managed to get series of 3 complete. Question remains whether there are two types (screwback and pinback) or whether first class screwback was just a one off.

look at the jersey site... 9.400 USD :speechless:

RECENTLY SOLD

pinback

- 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

screwback

- 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

PREVIOUSLY FOR SALE BUT NOT REPORTED AS SOLD

screwback

- USD 5.000, nr 227, Coinsell (on eBay)

hi bob

skrinko vasilui gregorevich was awarded with order of red banner, lenin, bogdan chmelnitsky 3 cl, and hsu star 8808, after ww2 he lived in ukraine in village near city summi and died in 1984

i will be interested in such a nice group

thank you

alex

Great - thanks

The red banner is also included in the group so that also appears to tie out

Thanks a lot

I am going to proceed with discussions with seller in kharkov (hope to get scans in 1-2 days)

If it doesn't come to a sale, I'll give another forum member the opportunity

Khmelnitsky 3rd class that is

Provenence: the grand daughter of the hero

A colleague of mine (she's ukranian) is visiting her home country and a friend of hers has following group for sale:

Skrinko Vasilii Grigorievich

Hero nr 8808 (10 april 45)

Lenin 107497

Khmelnitsky 1170

...Plus some "smaller" items and docs.

Before making her go to big effort to arrange high res scans I first wanted to check in hero encyclopedia whether the group is possible (echoes of war does provide circumstantial evidence to support so but getting nr to match from encyclopedia would be best) but mine is still in storage somehwere in germany:(

Could somebody help me out?

If real and should I not acquire it then I'm happy to pass connection on to anyone else.

Thanks,

Bob

There's a Blucher being auctioned off on zeige - nice pic as well

HSL?

HSU

There was another one for 10K (but it included several additional awards)

Go to zeige's website and click through on auction - you can easily scroll through all the lots (with description/pic) and see both starting price and final price

A documented hero star was just sold at zeige auction for 6.500 Euro...

Christian,

When is the last time that you saw a real HSL available for sale? As far as I know, they go today for significantly more than $3,000.

Marc

I was gonna say: whoever has a real one for sale for 3K, please PM me! In fact, I'll pay 1K extra if it's with documents :cheeky:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Is each one of the 3 ribbons an individual piece held in by the rim, or are all three made together in one piece?

They are individual pieces held together by the casing (tight as can be - no room to slightly push them around whatsoever)