Guest Rick Research Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Here's a nice MVD group that another collector is letting me share here. More to be posted as received! [attachmentid=21849]The "egg"--[attachmentid=21850]
Danny Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 Very nice. I am a badge collector but have a weakness for the MVD/NKVD/KGB. These badges are just as expensive as some higher end Orders now. Maybe one day.....
Stogieman Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 Nice group Rick. Nice friends who share this "egg" with you!!
Guest Rick Research Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 Himself, wearing the egg on M1947 gimnastyorka:[attachmentid=22353]And himself at HQ in M1947 uniform, wearing some sort of "officer of the day" (?) armband at his desk:[attachmentid=22354]How neat is THAT? How often do we get Native Environment photos like this? The cover of his Honored MVD badge Award Book:[attachmentid=22355]
Guest Rick Research Posted January 10, 2006 Posted January 10, 2006 And the inside pages, with another M1947 gimnastyorka portrait. Badge # 5485 was authorized by decree of 10 November 1957 for "successful fulfillment of assignments:"[attachmentid=22356]More to follow when received!
Guest Rick Research Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 Makarov's police long service medals award booklet: nothing odd about the initial 1959 bestowal of his 15 years medal[attachmentid=23196]but his 20 on the right hand page shows authorized as of 1965-- yet that entry is dated... 1970!!!And here is a 1985 photo ID (in police uniform though surely long retired) as a war veteran. The stamp second from top on the right hand page certifies that from THIS he was thereby authorized for a jubilee OPW2! (I've got similar 1985 stamps on such things as a Victory Over Germany award booklet etc)[attachmentid=23197]
Guest Rick Research Posted January 22, 2006 Posted January 22, 2006 Comrade Makarov's MMM for 10 years service does not APPEAR to be strange, bizarre and inexplicable[attachmentid=23890]... from the FRONT(to be continued )
Guest Rick Research Posted January 23, 2006 Posted January 23, 2006 Name and valid without photograph... OK. Fine so far. [attachmentid=24234](theme from "Jaws" heard dimly)[attachmentid=24235] Hey! Wait a minute!!!! WHAT the????????(first the Spot the Anomaly Quiz, then the punch line )
Stogieman Posted January 23, 2006 Posted January 23, 2006 He has the special book for MMM. very hard to find. Harder still stamped for MVD!
Guest Rick Research Posted January 23, 2006 Posted January 23, 2006 Yes but THAT is not the anomaly. Now that you have The Book...
Guest Rick Research Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Ohhhhhhhhhhhhkay then. NOBODY caught the "shaved ring" typical of 1946-47... being handed out in... 1955! Nicely rounded and not the usual sideways "D" but that type nonetheless.And oddly enough, I have in my paws today another "shaved circle" MVD/Police MMM... with book dated 1951 and ... no serial number. Of course no serial number-- in 1951! But on a 1946 type medal?Which is why Comrade Makarov's has THIS as Quite The Surprise on back of HIS, above:[attachmentid=25421]Yup, "1" stamped over "18"[attachmentid=25423]
Stogieman Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 OK, so now we have 2 different unnumbered ones, disbursed through the NKVD in the 1950's of a late 1940's style.What does this tell us?What are the significance of the numbers on Makarov's?I've never seen a stamp like that one before!?
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