Bob

Nice one. Do the numbers on the doc&order match?

yes - but will know for sure when i get it in mail

Igor keeps pushing the price limits up - a self-fulfilling prophecy?

RECENTLY SOLD

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- 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

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- 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

CURRENTLY FOR SALE

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- USD 2.450, nr 1.764, <a href="http://auction-su.com/-,itemname,160966,id,auctiondetails" target="_blank">http://auction-su.com/-,itemname,160966,id,auctiondetails</a>

- USD 1.400 (starting price), nr 1,246, Dmitry Markov auction

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

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- USD 3.300, nr 227, Coinsell (on eBay)

- USD 1.400 (starting price), nr 427, Dmitry Markov auction

Great, thanks.

Just bought a star at an auction with accompanying document. Attached is scan (have to wait for the package to arrive so this is all I can show now)

Is it rare to find documented partisan stars?

This award was seen worn quite a bit at the funeral of uncle Enver. So fitting to show a pic of his grave (from my trip to Albania a few years ago).

Not very glamorous for such a leader!

For Albanian awards the old saying of "no news is goods news" is not valid.

ANY news is good news

Finally managed to hunt down the big source book. It's in Albaninian (as expected) and contains the text of the Law 6133 also shown above, graphic depictions of all the main awards (although no detail on the variations) and an additional text (about 17-18 pages) which appears to deal with more the institutions / process of awarding Albanian orders/medals.

Hopefully this will be covered (in English) in the new book on Albanian awards being prepared in Albania by a forum member.

This nice little book will get a warm place in my "library".

Forgot about this, here's your guy. One of the last recipients of a Hero Star.

Hey Bob,

I'll have a better look at the other docs. later, but the bottom one is 100% sure for khalkin Gol.

The 29 on the cover and inside are for '39.. Nice one! Even nicer the award number is very very low 316 by the looks of it!!!!

Congrats!!

JC

thanks jc - time for me to run over to the KG thread

The brown leather booklet is what intrigues me the most... quality of the booklet, spot for a photograph, there must (wishful thinking) something more to it

And outside

And finally, another ?25 years of the MPR? ? low number, lot?s of scribbles on the inside AND the outside. Oddly enough, for such a low number, 1948 as date ? odd as numbers > 14.000 have a date in 1946

And then a small group to 1 person with the usual awards AND a booklet for Khalkhin Gol award issued in the 1959

Have seen that last document before, but don't recall seeing it as part of a group yet

the other booklet

?we won? and ?25 years of the MPR? documents? take note of the low number of the first document! I suspect both awarded to same person. At this point still personally signed (with some added text). Note on the ?we won? the previous lowest nr was 2.826 dated July ?46? we?re getting closer to the first awarding date (presumably then June ?46 such as 29th on this booklet)

inside? the brown leather booklet appears to have a place for a photograph ? another sign that this is not an ordinary booklet?

This is the document which has sparked my main interest? brown leather(ette) on the outside (therefore must be important?) with a faded picture of star on top, a bow or propeller underneath it and then a depiction of a solder (?) and uighur script around it? this doesn?t feel like your typical a dime a dozen award booklet? underneath it (unrelated I presume) a small black booklet for?..?

and now the mysterious folded piece of paper

inside

Next up a cardboard (???) booklet not yet seen before (I think)... again no clues on the inside... however, included folded on the inside was this piece of paper ? the mystery only gets bigger!

inside

Received an interesting deck of (award?) documents - will be posting some.

First, booklet with cover I don?t recall having seen before and, in next post, the inside which offers me no clues... left with a big question mark

Coming back to this thread, so much progression has been made in the area of Albanian collection - for a large part due to Eric's work which has "opened up" this area of collecting by documenting in a well structured way the awards in his English (very helpful!) document, the changes during history, etc.

Over the past year or two on this forum we've uncovered numbered Skanderbegs (and the informal feedback is still that these CAN be researched in the state archives!), deputy pints, hero star and hero of labour star, etc.

Looking forward to the next phase:

- there is an Albanian member of this forum working on a book + exhibition... should be well worth a visit to Tirana!

- more and more award documents have come available offering both interestingly designed documentation (Albanian awards may be a bit crude vs. other countries, but the documents are great!) and some nice personalized reasons for awarding... hopefully more to come!

- and then sights will be set on finding some elusive awards... such as the Laureat of Albania prize (seen by very few people sofar, and no picture available yet)

2008 promises to be an interesting year for Albanian awards (although one needs patience... things get uncovered at glacial speed - but that's better than not at all )

Wish all Albanian awards enthusiasts a fruitful 2008

Got one in my collection since recently as well. Not the same quality as Soviet made but interesting nonetheless. Not numbered on reverse. The flagpole not being solid metal is an interesting design feature.

Looks very nice. I am also used to hiding it in the vault (although by vault is in another country than where I live so typically expensive stuff tends to pile up at home until I have to go to the bank).

I myself am looking (for a long time already) for an old entomologist cabinet - rather than store spiders, butterflies, etc. to store medals. One day I'll find that perfect cabinet (preferably not new but antique)