Cased Social Welfare 3rd Class

[Guest Darrell]

Hi all.

Just curious what the concensous is on this Cased 3rd Class Social Welfare Medal ...

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Edited September 26, 2005 by Darrell

[Chris Boonzaier]

Dont have t in front of me, but yours seems to correspond exactly to the wifes great grandfathers, box and all.

[Scowen]

I'm at work at the moment, so will check properly when I get home. However, it looks good to me at the moment, I'll post pix for comparison later.

Cheers

Don

[Laurence Strong]

But Darrell.........it's not Russian

Edited September 27, 2005 by Laurence Strong

[Scowen]

I don't think you have much top worry about. Here's mine.....

Cheers

Don

[Scowen]

Reverse

[Scowen]

Sorry, I haven't got better shots of the box, but yours matches mine

[Scowen]

Before you know it you'll have the set......

Cheers

Don

[Guest Darrell]

Before you know it you'll have the set......

Cheers

Don

OMG ... another line .... Maybe I should pass and stick to Russian Stuff like Larry says

[Laurence Strong]

They sure are a nice award though.

[Nan Su]

Wow! Perfect collection!

My Cased Social Welfare 3rd Class

[Nan Su]

Cased..

[Nan Su]

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[Scowen]

Thanks.

You have a beauty there as well.

Thanks for adding to the thread

Cheers

Don

[Stogieman]

I've always found this one to be a bit curious. Quite beautiful, but just doesn't seem to garner much "collector interest"??

[Rosenberg]

I agree with Stoogie,but believe this is applicable to civil awards in general.IMO you need to have a certain facette of interest in TR to get down with civil awards,one only cares when not strictly limited on a military point of interest.Civil awards are more founded in everyday life than in the battle of XYZ.And when it comes to the Volkspflege series you need to like the social welfare institutions

[Scowen]

That is true, combat awards have always had more of a following compared to Civil. However this works to our favour, it keeps the price down on items that in many cases are a lot rarer than their more expensive combat reletives

The North Reinland fire cross for instance, only awarded 84 times....... Compare that to the price of a Knights Cross & how many of those were awarded?

Cheers

Don

[Rosenberg]

Don,

I also agree with you totally.Yes,the advantage of relative low market prices shan?t be overlooked.Anyway these are nice objects that demonstrate the value certain individuals were granted upon performing either special service or outstanding efforts for society as a whole.

"much of that is lost"

[Nan Su]

Hi Don

I agree with your views! Differences in the value of the collection, out of civilian medals and combat medals understanding of the different。