Bob

Make that: an ULTRA rare Ikom one!

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http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9130

it's an order of bravery... a rare Ikom one

I'm still confused sometimes between some Albanian awards at first glance :speechless:

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Can you tell us when and why the centerpiece changed?

Chuck

Good point - completely misposted!

Mongolian ribbons are nice

Mongolian enamel ribbons are even nicer

Mongolian enable ribbon BARS are irresistable!

Finally I managed to catch one:

View on the inside

The corresponding Skanderbeg came in a very, very big case!

Order document

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

THE PRESIDIUM OF PARLIAMENT OF ALBANIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC

AWARDS

COMRADE: MEHMET REFAT KODRA

WITH ORDER OF BRAVERY

DISTINGUISHED AND BRAVE FIGHTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF RESISTANCE AND SELF SACRIFICE AT DIFFERENT BATTLES AGAINST INVADERS AND TRAITORS FOR LIBERATION OF FATHERLAND AND ALBANIAN PEOPLE.

DECREE NR. 2178

The medal document translated (awarded to a woman by the way):

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

THE PRESIDIUM OF PARLIAMENT OF ALBANIAN PEOPLES REPUBLIC

AWARDS

COMRADE: ZYRA RADHIMA

WITH MEDAL OF BRAVERY

DISTINGUISHED AND BRAVE FIGHTER HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN EXAMPLE OF RESISTANCE AND SELF SACRIFICE AT DIFFERENT BATTLES AGAINST INVADERS AND TRAITORS FOR LIBERATION OF FATHERLAND AND ALBANIAN PEOPLE.

DECREE NR. 1526

Translated (so, a long service award):

PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

THE PRESIDIUM OF PARLIAMENT OF PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

AWARDS

COMRADE: IDRIZ RAZIP RESULI

WITH: ORDER OF SCANDERBEG 3RD CLASS

FOR HONEST AND UNTIRING EFFORTS DURING 15 YEARS OF SERVICE IN ARMED FORCES OF PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

Ikom first class - good scan

Indeed doesn't appear to be real gold

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Award document for Skanderbeg 3rd class

And here's the bronze version!

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Award doc for the order and the medal (for two different people).

Would the degree match the awarding of an order/medal only to 1 specific person?

Great stuff - one burst of energy in this thread has resulted in more pics of variations of this award then I've ever seen before :jumping:

thanks - seems like one award with exhaustive knowledge documented about it!

I find the use of the word "insurgent" amusing...

Sorry if this pushes thread into political realm, not the intention

That's it for now

Won't bother you with uniforms, weapons, etc. as I can't distinguish which is from what era to be honest

As a thank you, some more pics probably relevant for the people who know about this area of collecting.

Was visiting the Panzermuseum in Munster this weekend and (besides all the tanks, WW2 uniforms, orders/medals, Rommel death mask, Marshal staff of General von Kluge, etc. etc. etc.) there was also a tableu with range of older awards. One thing caught my eye and left me wondering:

- is it known which foreigners won a PlM?

- what is a "sovereign"?

Edit: interesting, didn't strike me until after rereading my own post... 1 "Kaiser" also got one:)

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1981...mp;#entry286139

Anybody here who can shed more light (pics?) on this award?

prize winners were not just iraqis so it seems:

http://www.unesco.org/education/prizewinners_1967_2001.pdf

http://www.unesco.org/education/prizewinners_1967_2001.pdf

Link to complete list which includes (on top of the above):

- winners of other literacy awards (non-USSR)

- honorable mentions (incl. for the Krupskaya one)

Given the extremely select number of awardees, I'm inclined to believe there may be mint escapees on the market... but even then not that many as the one I recently acquires is the first one I've seen for sale.

Unfortunately not numbered - makes you wonder whether there was any rationale behind numbering some awards yet not others.

List of recipients:

1970 Mongolia Language and Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences

1971 Zambia Zambia Adult Literacy Programme

1972 Iran Education Corps

1973 Tanzania West Lake Region Literacy Project

1974 Rwanda Shyorongi Community Development Circle (CEDECOS)

1975 Somalia Abidirizak Mohamoud Abukar

1976 Syria Literacy Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture

1977 - none?

1978 Vietnam Commune of Cambinh, Pilot Literacy and Complementary Education Unit

1979-1 Iraq Supreme Council of the National Campaign for Compulsory Literacy of Iraq

1979-2 Peru People?s Union of Peruvian Women

1980 Nicaragua Nicaraguan National Literacy Campaign

1981 Cuba Federation of Cuban Women

1982 India Directorate of Non-formal and Adult Education of Tamil Nadu

1983 Lesotho Lesotho Distance Learning Centre

1984 Cuba Cuban National Association of the Blind

1985 Laos Xiengkho District

1986 China Wu Lien Country in Shandong Province

1987 Indonesia Mrs Eriyah

1988 Angola National Literacy Centre

1989 Jamaica Jamaican Movement for Advancement of Literacy (JAMAL)

1990 China People?s Government of Xiping County, Henan Province

1991 Pakistan Adult Basic Education Society (ABES), Gujranwala

By the way, if somebody could help translate the reverse of the award? Thanks :cheers:

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Next up the Krupskaya award for literacy efforts

Some background below

"The International Literacy Prizes 1966-2000

Each year from 1966 UNESCO has celebrated INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY with the aim to sensitize and mobilize international public opinion and to elicit their interest and active support for literacy activities ? one of UNESCO?s major preoccupations since its first General Conference in 1946. On this day, the Director-General of UNESCO addresses a message to the world, appealing to individuals, organizations and states to demonstrate their support and solidarity for literacy and to promote non-formal education for all, particularly for those who have been excluded from the school system.

This annual celebration started following a recommendation of the World Conference of Ministers of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy which met in Tehran in September 1965. The Conference recommended that 8 September, the date of the inauguration of the Conference, be proclaimed International Literacy Day and be observed world-wide. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran proposed that UNESCO award an international literacy prize for meritorious work in the struggle against illiteracy, and created the Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Prize (1967-1978) which was, from 1967 to 1969, the only literacy award presented.

Two other prizes, the Nadezhda K. Krupskaya Prize (1970-1991) and the Iraq Literacy Prize (1989-1991) were awarded for 19 years and 11 years respectively.

At present five international literacy prizes are awarded each year:

The International Reading Association Literacy Award, created in 1979 by the International Reading Association, a non-governmental organization

The Noma Literacy Prize created in 1980 by the late Shoichi Noma, President of Kodansha Ltd., Publishers

The two King Sejong Literacy Prizes created in 1989 by the Government of the Republic of Korea to commemorate a king who invented, more than 500 years ago, an alphabet consisting of 22 easy to learn letters

The Malcolm Adiseshiah International Literacy Prize created in 1998 by the Government of India to commemorate the late Malcolm Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO and Chairman of the International Literacy Prize Jury.

The three categories of recognition awarded are:

The five Prizes consisting of a cheque for US $15,000, a silver medal and a diploma

Honourable Mentions consisting of a diploma and a bronze medal

Recognitions by the Jury in the International Literacy Prize award list "

source: http://www.unesco.org/education/literacy_2000/history.html

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Posted on another site - but will focus here going forward (GMIC was down for me yesterday for some reason).

I like these less mainstream awards - even nicer of course WITH documentation / background but we can't have it all.

First up, People's Teacher of the USSR. LMD mint mark on both ob- and reverse of ring. No serial number on reverse unfortunately despite a line being there presumably for it.