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    Posted

    To offer a corrected nomenclature:

    Type 1.1 (screwback, number prefaced by ?No?); Low = 316/High = 1763; 1941-??

    Type 1.2 (screwback); Low = 1795/High = 9263; 1951-60

    Type 2.1 (pinback, silver, rotating-tool-engraved); Low = 10020/High = 16999; 1982-??

    Type 2.2 (pinback, silvered bronze, enameled ribbon); Low = 18071/High = 23354; 1985-??

    Type 2.3 (pinback, silvered bronze, enameled ribbon, unnumbered)

    Sorry for helping to keep an myth alive. May that "thump" we hear be a stake going well through its heart?

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    Posted

    To offer a corrected nomenclature:

    Type 1.1 (screwback, number prefaced by ?No?); Low = 316/High = 1763; 1941-??

    Type 1.2 (screwback); Low = 1795/High = 9263; 1951-60

    Type 2.1 (pinback, silver, rotating-tool-engraved); Low = 10020/High = 16999; 1982-??

    Type 2.2 (pinback, silvered bronze, enameled ribbon); Low = 18071/High = 23354; 1985-??

    Type 2.3 (pinback, silvered bronze, enameled ribbon, unnumbered)

    Sorry for helping to keep an myth alive. May that "thump" we hear be a stake going well through its heart?

    Ed,

    So which Type & Var. is the one I posted on Posts #10 and #11?

    When posting it I identified it as a T2V4 as it was the only one unnumbered on your previous Types & Variations list (Post #1 on this thread). But apparently there are two Var. unnumbered, one with a reverse like mine from Posts #10 and #11, and another with the funny reverse as the one you posted on Post #25 !

    Any opinions?

    Thanks,

    Dolf :cheers:

    Posted

    Sorry for helping to keep an myth alive. May that "thump" we hear be a stake going well through its heart?

    I'm sorry for the outburst that was sheer frustration taking the upperhand. :blush:

    Just goes to show how hard it is to stop rumours :(

    Jan

    Posted

    I'm sorry for the outburst that was sheer frustration taking the upperhand. :blush:

    Just goes to show how hard it is to stop rumours :(

    Jan

    No, they have to be stopped. Dead.

    :beer:

    • 3 months later...
    Posted (edited)

    A new type. Enameled ribbon, lightly silvered bronze, unnumbered. Believed to have been awarded only for Mongolian-Chinese border clashes in the 1960s.

    Edited by Ed_Haynes
    • 2 months later...
    Posted (edited)

    For the lonely crowd on this forum, the latest update:

    A 37.1/M 20 -- Type 1.1 (screwback, number prefaced by ?No?) -- Low = 112/High = 1984

    A 37.1/M 20 -- Type 1.2 (screwback) -- Low = 2146/High = 9263

    M 20 -- Type 2.1 (pinback, silver, rotating-tool-engraved) -- Low = 10020/High = 16999

    Type 2.2 (pinback, silvered bronze, enameled ribbon, unnumbered ? said to have been awarded for border actions against China?)

    A 37.3/M 20 -- Type 2.3 (pinback, silver-plated bronze, enameled ribbon) -- Low = 18071/High = 23354

    A 37.4/M 20 -- Type 2.4 (pinback, silver plated bronze, enameled ribbon, unnumbered, unawarded escapee?)

    Edited by Ed_Haynes
    Posted (edited)

    Hi Ed,

    You can change Low number for Type A 37.1/M 20 -- Type 1.1 (screwback, number prefaced by ?No?) form 1984 to 1989

    and Low from 316 to 112

    Edited by GlennC
    Posted

    Hi Ed,

    You can change Low number for Type A 37.1/M 20 -- Type 1.1 (screwback, number prefaced by ?No?) form 1984 to 1989

    and Low from 316 to 112

    Done. Nice one, Glenn! Thanks.

    :beer:

    • 1 month later...
    Posted

    A new type. Enameled ribbon, lightly silvered bronze, unnumbered. Believed to have been awarded only for Mongolian-Chinese border clashes in the 1960s.

    This appears to be such a bronze one but numbered - or not?

    Posted

    Excerpted from Bob's really useful master list of serial numbers and dates of award (see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=9917 and THANKS, BOB! ), here are known data points for the Honorary Medal of Combat (A37):

    854 26/09/1946

    1,288 16/09/1947

    3,813 08/07/1947

    4,312 08/07/1947

    4,521 11/09/1953

    5,228 24/07/1954

    5,514 20/08/1951

    19,346 24/09/1984

    20,151 19/07/1985

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    Posted

    any opinions on this piece?

    A beauty!

    Sometimes, as I've also indicated in a different thread, the more "simple" medals don't get enough appreciation. Guess it's too easy to succumb to enamel addiction:)

    Posted

    Ack!

    Individually! :banger: History wrecker. :speechless:

    Any of you read the article in Harpers, "The Man Who Would be Khan"? It gave a lot of great background detail on the Mongolian army.

    • 7 months later...
    Posted

    Just to keep the documentary record intact, a new low number data point (18009) for type 2.3 (the silvered bronze ugly one). A summary of "the neighborhood":

    Type 2.1 -- 10020-16999

    Type 2.2 -- unnumbered (the "China border" one)

    Type 2.3 -- 18009-23354 (still awarded?)

    • 7 months later...
    Posted (edited)

    Well, Rick and I had a good day yesterday. T1V2

    This is what I got.

    Engraved serial # 9231, screwback...@ 1960ies? mayhap a long service award?

    By the way, are these the equal of the Soviet military combat medal?

    Edited by Ulsterman
    Posted (edited)

    Well, Rick and I had a good day yesterday. T1V2

    This is what I got.

    Engraved serial # 9231, screwback...@ 1960ies? mayhap a long service award?

    Nice 'en. Long service is not a bad guess, but we'll never know until research clicks in.

    Since we have no documented data points between 7760 (1950) and 19346 (1984) there is quite a gulf. Again, research will fill all the blanks.

    By the way, are these the equal of the Soviet military combat medal?

    Something of a combination of the two? Direct parallels to the Soviet system are difficult, though there is some similarity (obviously).

    Edited by Ed_Haynes
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