China Medail China - Taiwan ?

[g_deploige]

Who can help me with the identification of this Chinese medal and the translation of the inscription, thanks

Medal of Kuomintang ???

Guy

[hc8604]

Fake

[Paul L Murphy]

This is one of the many fantasy fake medals that are coming out of China at the moment. You can recognise them since they are made from poor quality metal, have the similar ribbon as this and are painted instead of any enamelling.

[hc8604]

are painted instead of any enamelling.

There are a few real badges that have paint enamel.... but the tricky part is to identify whether it is real or not. ;)

[kapten_windu]

that's a fake, you can find many of them on ebay

[SESAWER]

I think it's not really much truth there was no silver medals and the medal may be original, see here: Liaohsi Medal for the Struggle to Resist the United States of America and Support Korea, 1950-1953 or here: Chinese Medals ,was a lot of medals that were not beautiful or silver and patina on the medal will do not in two years but less than twenty years so can not unequivocally say whether this is false.

[SESAWER]

I think it's not really much truth there was no silver medals and the medal may be original, see here: Liaohsi Medal for the Struggle to Resist the United States of America and Support Korea, 1950-1953 or here: Chinese Medals ,was a lot of medals that were not beautiful or enemal and patina on the medal will do not in two years but less than twenty years so can not unequivocally say whether this is false.

[hc8604]

I think it's not really much truth there was no silver medals and the medal may be original, see here: Liaohsi Medal for the Struggle to Resist the United States of America and Support Korea, 1950-1953 or here: Chinese Medals ,was a lot of medals that were not beautiful or silver and patina on the medal will do not in two years but less than twenty years so can not unequivocally say whether this is false.

No, Most of those medals are fake. There is a big difference between the real ones and fakes/fantasies. The one listed under Rustyknight's website, most are fake; I only see about 5 that are real. From the dealer site, it is fake, 30 Euros is a ripoff. Even dealers can be wrong at times...

Also, there were a lot of less seen Nationalist badges that were copied and put with a red ribbon.

Edited February 18, 2012 by hc8604