Mongolia Sport Badges

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W 46 -- Spartakade of the Khuch Club

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W 52 -- Air Sport

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W NIB 03 -- The National Olympic Committee of the Mongolian People's Republic

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W NIB 04 -- Spartakiad of the Mongolian Trade Union

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W 49 -- 2nd Spartikad of the Collective Farmers

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W 54 -- Mongolia

But what IS it? "FDIF"??

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W 47 -- 2nd Conference

Of what??

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W 26b -- Sport Referee 1

The one missing above http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1022...38563&st=45.

Edited January 11, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

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W 25c -- Archery, 3rd Degree

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W NIB 04 -- Spartakiad of the Mongolian Trade Union

W NIB 05 and W NIB 06 -- Spartakiad of the Mongolian Trade Union

Looks like this came in three classes?

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W NIB 07 -- 50 Years of Mongolian Sport

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W NIB 08 -- Mongolian Racing

This is an amazing badge, and I suspect it will not scan well. The image of the horse and rider is custom-carved from a dark green stone (jadeite of some sort?) and is highly three-dimensional. A tiny work of wearable art!

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W NIB 09 and W NIB 10 -- Sport Master

What seen to be earlier (W NIB 09) and later (W NIB 10) versions of the familiar Sport Master badge (W 04).

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W NIB 11 -- The 1st Workers' Spartakiada

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W NIB 12 -- Gymnastic Competition Badge

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I'll share a couple of documents from the "rare as checkens' teeth" category. Documents of a badge NO ONE has ever SEEN, except from a small, broken piece in one of the old collections in Ulanbaatar.

W01, Badge "Ready for Labor and Defence", an obvious copy of its Soviet counterpart. (Almost too long to fit on the scanner and testing the upper limits of forum image size restrictions.)

From what I read as year 22 = 1932. Beyond that, it is on the list for translation.

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And another document for the same badge.

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First page.

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And the next page. Dated 23 April Year 33 (=1943). I have another similar document dating from Year 36 (=1946).

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The next page spread. The only immediate sense I can make of this is that the recipient was born in 1917, making him/her about 26 at the time.

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And for the next couple of pages it goes on with what seem to be reports of achievement levels in various sporting events.

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OK, maybe I just confuse easily, or maybe it is because it has to do with sports (which I have never quite understood), but I am finding some of these sports badges hard to sort out.

I have found what I think are (at least) three series of the track and field medals (W27a-W29).

These "feel" to be the oldest. Large (39 mm) with a mirror reverse. The runner is running to the (politically incorrect?) right. In gold (red "ribbon"), silver (blue "ribbon"), and bronze (green "ribbon").

Edited February 4, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

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The reverse of the "gold" medal.

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A second version, smaller medals (27 mm), with the runner running left. Same "ribbon logic" as before. To make this more complex, I've seen these with both screwbacks and pinbacks.

Edited February 4, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

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To compare the two, in "silver".