Soviet How About This For A Group

[order_of_victory]

Heres a group currently for Sale on Collect Russia's sit for a cool 34,000 usd

The Group includes:

Decorations: Order of the Red Banner, Type 2 Var. 2, #71643, April 1943 issue;

Order of the Red Banner, 2nd award , Type 2 Var. 2, #4620, September 1943 issue;

Order of the Red Banner , Type 3, Var. 2, #222119, May 1945;

Order of the Red Banner, 4th award, #1684, April 1954;

Order of the Red Banner, 5th award, #225, September 1956;

Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 3rd cl., Type 1 (with separate center medallion), #1092, December 1943; Order of Alexander Nevsky , Type 3, "deep dish" variation, #11058 (note the extremely low number, near the extreme bottom of the range for this type), September 1944;

Order of the Red Star , #2881384, June 1949;

Order of the Red Star , #3329279, June 1955;

Medal for Valor , Type 1 Var. 1 converted to 5-sided suspension, #12930, May 1940 issue;

Medal for Combat Service , Type 2, Var. 2, #1813159, November 1944.

Heres a pic enjoy.........

[Riley1965]

WOW !!! I need to talk to my bank about a loan. I love this group !!!

Doc

[order_of_victory]

Doc,

I must admit Im not realy into groups but even I have fallen for this

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[Alfred]

nice , a dream

... to expensive for me.

[NavyFCO]

I've got to say that's one of the nicest groups I've seen in a long time! Even in my jadedness, I've got to say that that would probably be a "dream" group for me as well... Now if the guy was just an HSU, how perfect would that be???

Even back when things were "cheap" most of us couldn't afford this one anyway. I don't know, but I think about three years ago, this was probably still a $10,000 group.

Dave

[NavyFCO]

The photos on Igor's site are awesome (I wish I knew how he did them!) The photo of the book is to-die-for...

What I'm SHOCKED about is that he never became an HSU. I've owned HSU groups to bomber pilots with less sorties and achivements than he. He must have been very unliked by his chain of command!

Dave

[order_of_victory]

It is a realy nice set, I couldnt belive it when I saw it.

He obviously did not lick enough boots to get his HSU

I have seen quite a few full books but never one quite like that.

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[Ed_Haynes]

The research would be awesome to behold!

For what it is, I'm not sure the price is unreasonable. For this, I think you look into selling family members.

[NavyFCO]

For what it is, I'm not sure the price is unreasonable. For this, I think you look into selling family members.

I think the price is fairly close to right on. Doing a survey of various dealer's websites, I came up with these rough numbers:

BK3 - $4000

Nevsky - $1600

Red Banner (screwback) - $600

Red Banner (hanging) - $125

Red Banner 2 screwback - $2600

Red Banner 4 - $4000

Red Banner 5 - $14000

Other medals - around $200 for the lot

So, in parts, we'd be looking at around $27,125 (and I think I might be low on a couple of the awards)

Throw in $225 a pop on McDaniel COAs (11 of 'em) you've got an extra (whopping!) $2475 on top of that - taking it up to about $30,000 in just parts alone!

For a group like this with $30K in parts, I don't think a $4K "group premium" is that bad.

Heck, with all that considered, the group is a downright good deal!

Dave

[Stogieman]

It's been up there and drooled over by me for over a week now..........

[order_of_victory]

Thanks Dave,

For the price break down

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[SWE Erik]

Isn't the bravery medal entry in the booklet missing a "0"?

A stunning group I have to agree, but without campaign medals I'm not interested.

/Erik

[NavyFCO]

Isn't the bravery medal entry in the booklet missing a "0"?

Good catch!

I never saw that. Quite unusual, but the book appears to be 100% righteous... I guess it was an administrative error that no one ever caught!

Dave