Mongolia CASED/BOXED Mongolian Awards

[Bob]

I bought the SB on Alexei's website which was boxed. Will post a pic later this week. It's an interesting little box... not a typical box and I presume not an "official" one but a very nice little box indeed so I presume the owner cared a lot for his SB.

Edit: let me correct that statement... judging from the box, I suspect (male chauvinist speaking here) that it was awarded to a woman:). Now, if only we had research...

Edited February 13, 2007 by Bob

[Ed_Haynes]

Look forward to seeing it, Bob.

[Stogieman]

I was wondering who snagged that one!! Congrats!!

[Bob]

Here we go - not very sharp images but gives an impression

[Ed_Haynes]

That is a very "Chinese" box. I'd have to wonder about its legitimate match with a Mongolian award!

[Bob]

That is a very "Chinese" box. I'd have to wonder about its legitimate match with a Mongolian award!

Agree - unfortunately another "story" we'll not easily get to the bottom of.

[Ed_Haynes]

This is a screwback or pinback? I forget the original listing?

If pinback, if a nasty bronze SB, in neo-nationalist post-socialist reviley, I might see the box as legitimate (an act of "reaching out", culturally, to Han-occupied Inner Mongolia, etc.), but if a REAL screwback or real silver pinback, . . . ?

Maybe an orphan badge just found a home? A warm place to sleep for the night? 'Tis cold in Ulanbaatar these days, despite Tsagaan Sar (greetings, by the way!). After his tomb got demolished, poor Sukhbaatar has needed a warm and padded place to reside?

[Bob]

It's a genuine pinback (1785 if I recall correctly)

[Ed_Haynes]

It's a genuine pinback (1785 if I recall correctly)

OK, so a nice type 2. Actually, 'tis the box I feel uneasy with not the SB lovely!

(These are AMAZING awards.)

The nasty-brassy ones need to be better understood, as there are few numbered (starting up between 2006 and 2057?) out there, but most seen are unnumbered (escapees?).