khorgor

thanks all for the amazing information!!!

Its nice to know this guy had a bit of history besides slaving over a cooking pot and eating a bit too much...

I have to wonder why he left/got moved from the lancers to the catering corp though. Maybe his fitness has been a long running issue during his service?

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for posting all these up.

I hope you don't mind if I add to this thread? I don't recall spotting this one in your collection over the last few pages.

Enjoy:

according to www.medal-medaille.com (copyrighted), the medal is awarded for Long Service Medal for 25 years' service awarded to members of the National Guard

The one in my collection is the second class, so most likely, it would of been for 15 years or something.

Apologies over the size of the photos!!!!

Thanks guys.

Unfortunately I won't be visiting singapore.

My trip is limited ot KL and Mauritius.

Thanks anyways and appreciate the additional info on the order of jahore

Thanks hugh.

I'll see how I go. Might give megan a yell as well as she was the one who provided the pretty pictures over at OMSA of the medals

Hi guys.

I'm off to KL in Malaysia this year for a little holiday.

With the fiancee stretching up for some serious shopping, I thought I would try and hunt down some Malaysian ODM.

I was hoping if anyone could give advice regarding on where to look or if I should be weary of any laws regarding trying to bring a medal home.

I am really hoping to try and get my hands on a Order of the Crown of Jahore. Will I have any chance?

Any help on locations and maybe even some ball park prices would be greatly appreciated!!!!

wow. I love the blade. great buy!!!

Wish I could get a proper sword for my collection at that amount! lucky you :-)

hey kapten,

I believe there is a similar bar running around on the net to a u-boat commander. I do believe he had the same medal but at the end of the bar.

But yes, I would like to know the answer too!!!

I was just thinking today that it would be a fun project to make up some bars of people who have won thai awards along with their other medals (more a excuse to collect different medals whilst presenting my thai collection ;-) )

very nice find chris. well done!

hi guys.

thankyou so much for your replies. I greatly appreciate your thoughts.

Dieter, you make very sound advice. Even replacing the ribbon with the correct ribbon, I'm technically falsifing the award and moving even further away from the original state.

Well, I have the price data you nicely put up on the forum. So I will have a hunt on YJA for a while and see if a complete 4th set appears and go for it

Thanks once again guys for pointing a new collector in the right direction. It will be a better idea to save the money, save up and head towards a complete set.

Thankls

hi dieter,

thanks for your comment

I do agree, but most 4th class awards come in at way over my budget. I did notice a nice 5th class on the site as a complete set at around the right price, but with the 4th class still coming in cheaper, I thought I would go for it.

Plus, I plan on framing the award, so I'm not too worried about the case - although I realise it hurts my chances in the future if I plan to sell and upgrade to a more complete award.

Hi guys.

I saw this 4th class today on the net and was hoping to get your thoughts on it.

I'm well aware that it has the wrong ribbon, with no box and the darkness of the photo makes it hard to see if the rays are golden or silver.

any help and opinons would be greatly appreciated before I put in the cash for it.

P.S. anyone know where I could get the proper ribbon for this? I'm guessing the OMSA ribbon bank? are e-bay ribbons generally ok?

Hi everyone.

just wondering if any collectors here have bidded on the ESC auction house.

Its a massive pain to register (you need to supply three references or pay 25% of your bid in advance....)

So just wondering if anyone has used them and gotten through the registration ok.

Apart from this, is there any current bidders in ESC that would be willing to help a fellow collector out with bidding for a few items

thankyou

Thanks Dave !!! And thanks for the photos as well

Hi Hugh,

As previously noted, I was originally posting from my phone, so couldn't link.

Here is the award here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&_rdc=1&item=330493065298&si=IpFNuUbAUe6fWD%252BztnazFum50mA%253D&viewitem=

apologies for not posting it earlier

as previously noted, I have seen this type of medal with different images of ladies, suggesting a class system or maybe just a image of the sweet heart

no one with any suggestions or help?

Hi all. eBay has been coming up with a few medals lately called Thailand lady in waiting

Research on the Thai government website did not find anything nor a search on good old google

Can any Thai collector here shed some light on the award? Is it some kind of sweet heart medal? I'm sure I have noticed a few different ones though which may lend to different classes or time periods

Sorry I can't post Picts since I'm posting from my phone, but the eBay number for the latest award is 330493065298

thanks for the info Graham!!

Hi folks, Mervyn suggested a I post this one up here for you guys to enjoy.

I am also looking for help on any medals missing from the group (I'm assuming I'm just missing the france and germany star)

Please enjoy

#edit# quick addition to say I just clarified he was a cook, Group B. Class 3

Discharged after failing fitness requirements.

The back of his discharge certificate has a reference from someone.

apologies for no medal reverse. Its not engraved though

Feel free to ask for more photos!

yea it is bad to see the fakes there.

Really appreciate people pointing them out!!!

(shame they didn't have any high thai awards though..hahah)

hi alex

thankyou for posting a link to these rare awards.

I heartedly agree. where DO they get them from? Full sets with box and the lot. beautiful....and expensive :-D

yeeesh. reconstructing that group would be a one way stop to bankruptcy

considering the grand cordons weigh in around 7 grand or so (well, for the rising sun at least) and assuming all the third classes come in at at least $150 each..... well thats a lot of dough right there :-)

I hate to think how heavy that vest would be!!!

I'm not sure. I'll let the other members comment.

I have heard bad comments regarding ths site though...

well Icna't comment on the medals - but I'm afraid they have already sold. Just checked the website now.

So even if they are good, sorry to say you missed out :-(

Hi Chris,

the book I mention is here: http://www.ormedec.com/

egypt is in part two. due out very soon

While not toally dedicated to egypt, it will be covering quite a few medals I imagine.

Hi Chris

Thanks for all your words.

No worries about the cap. I didn't win it anyways :-)

I'm more interested in collecting general awards that I find attractive and try to stay in that area for a while (one of the first things reccommended to me by most of the older collectors)

I'm not too worried about research and availability. If I was, I would of never gotten my thailand collection. Trust me - getting that stuff is even worse than egypt ODM!!!!

haha. yea I saw all the buy now offers on ebay. as I mentioned in my first post, I'm waiting for a release of a ODM book which will cover egypt with expected prices and what not. should be in the next month or so. So until then, I'll just do my market research through liverpool, medaille and ebay so when I'm ready to start, I know what to aim for.

and thanks. I have read most thread on here already to start off my research before this thread. So just finalising details before I start this area of collecting. I just find egypt has more of the beautiful medals compared to the other arab states and with the top classes weighing in around $1K, it's still in the budget :-)