Mongolia Marshal Star

[ub6365]

As I know , there are only two Marshal stars awarded to Choibalsan and Tsedenbal. I have no idea where is Star of Choibalsan, but had chance to see Star of Tsedenbal (in Central bank of Mongolia). if this topic is interesting I can provide some pics. Regards.

Edited August 16, 2007 by ub6365

[Ed_Haynes]

Pictures would be great. All I could contribute would be to scan the pictures from Battushig's book and his later article on Tsedenbal's star. And I don't like recycling images from the work of others

So far as I know, both stars are today in the Central Bank, though Choibalsan's may have surfaced from the national museum.

[Vatjan]

Pictures would be great. I think it's especially interesting to see how Tsedenbal's Star is so much more soviet than Choibalsan's. I have a pic somewhere of a Soviet Marshall star, let me look, so we can compare the soviet one to Tsedenbal's

Best regards

Jan

[ub6365]

sorry for quality

[ub6365]

one more

[ub6365]

another one

[ub6365]

+1

[ub6365]

Yes, both stars are in Centralbank (Mongolbank).

[Bob]

sorry for quality

"apologies" accepted!

These are the best pic's I've ever seen of this award!

[Bob]

By the way, is this on open display at the central bank or locked deep inside a vault and requiring special permission to view?

Any other awards also down there?

[Ed_Haynes]

It is my understandoing that what remains is deep in storage, and you need to know someone who knows someone who knows . . . . I believe a proposal had been floated to put some of these goodies on public display at the time of the 800th anniversary celebrations, but this seems not to have happened.

[Ed_Haynes]

The best images I have ever seen of the Chpoibalsan star are in Battushig's book. For the Tsendenbal stars (I think two were made?), you may want to glance at the very short article:

Dr. Achitsaikhan Battushig, "Der Rang eines Marschalls der Mongolischen Volksrepublik und seine Verleihungen," Militaria[p/i], 29, 1 (Januar-Februar 2006): 30

Sample:

[Bob]

Acquired this as a fake ‘filler’ for my collection recently