Hungary my latest purchaes

[Ulsterman]

At the local show I got these: two vaguely familiar badges (army good soldier awards?) and a parade badge from 1960.

What are the top two?

Cheaply made, one piece cast and painted enamel, yet still quite nice.

The Hungarian stuff is beginning to disappear though-

[hunyadi]

Upper Left: "Exceptional Battalion Commander"

Upper Rigtht "Excellent Platoon Commander"

and

of course an April 4th Parade Badge

[Ulsterman]

thanks CD!

When were these badges instituted? They look very 1970s-1980s to me.

[hunyadi]

From foggy memory I believe I was told 1976.... along with the long blue 'proficiency badges'.

[Gordon Craig]

Jeff, Charles,

Zsolt and I have discussed the different ways of translating ENELJARO versus KIVALO in other posts. While both could be translated as EXCELLENT Zsolt prefers to use EXCELLENT for KIVALO and MERITED (which doesn't really work in English) for ELENJARO. It would seem reasonable to translate these two words differently otherwise why would two different Hungarian words be used to inidcate the same thing? Any thoughts on this?

Regards,

Gordon

[Ulsterman]

Probably a matter of degree. I have zero Hungarian beyond the dictionary, so the subtleties are far beyond my ken, but if a native speaker could confirm that "merited" is 'less good' (awk!) than "distinguished" or "excellent", we'd have a definitive conception. I suspect there is a "ladder" or merit involved here: ("attractive,pretty,beautiful, gorgeous").

[hunyadi]

"Merited" sounds good - the ELENJARO seems to be a 'lesser' degree from what I can gather.

[Gordon Craig]

Charles,

Thanks for the confirmation. See you in a couple of days! I have a new contact with a militaria store in Sopron. He only speaks Hungarian so I will have to call upon your Hungarian skills to talk to him on the phone.

Cheers,

Gordon

[Ulsterman]

a new store?

in two words-ribbon bars!

[Gordon Craig]

Jeff,

Don't know about ribbon bars. This lead came in a search for cammouflage clothing. The owner actually has two stores in different cities and who knows what he might have!

Regards,

Gordon

[Guest Rick Research]

"Meritorious" ?

[Gordon Craig]

Rick,

I think that is an excellent suggestion.

Regards,

Gordon

[nesredep]

Hello!

Amazing and good shape.Congratulation.

All the best

Nesredep