Soviet Medals for Distinguished Military Service

[order_of_victory]

Dolf,

Even on the blured one you make out the Russian characters for LEn or have I just been looking at this for way to long.

Christophe,

I will try but my photographic skills are not brillient look at the screw nut.

Order of Victory

Edited May 6, 2006 by order_of_victory

[order_of_victory]

Just checked out the mondor site andthere is a close up of the first class mint mark and it is same, should of checked it first any way I cant understand what the Russian says, so any help on that sore would be nice.

Here s the pic from the mondor site

OoV

[Eric Gaumann]

Here s the pic from the mondor site

OoV

That's pretty much what mine looks like. Kinda. It's so damn small it's hard to say even under magnification.

Is it worth trying to set up my zoom lens to get this?

And if I do can I post images here? I'm a new member (probationary) and I haven't paid any money to be an associate yet. Do I have priveledges?

[Guest Darrell]

I could take a better picture with my camera but it's tucked away

Here are some closeups of my pictures above of the mm:

[Eric Gaumann]

The silver one looks kinda like "MM(x)" which should be the Moscow Mint as the Red Book says.

[Guest Darrell]

The silver one looks kinda like "MM(x)" which should be the Moscow Mint as the Red Book says.

Gotta go out for Birthday Dinner Maybe when I return I'll dig the camera out to get a good closeup shot

[Dolf]

That's pretty much what mine looks like. Kinda. It's so damn small it's hard to say even under magnification.

Is it worth trying to set up my zoom lens to get this?

And if I do can I post images here? I'm a new member (probationary) and I haven't paid any money to be an associate yet. Do I have priveledges?

Eric,

I believe you can post pics up to 60Kb until you post a certain amount of posts (not sure how many, maybe a Moderator can help you with details), then you'll be able to posts pics up to 110Kb.

Dolf

[Eric Gaumann]

Eric,

I believe you can post pics up to 60Kb until you post a certain amount of posts (not sure how many, maybe a Moderator can help you with details), then you'll be able to posts pics up to 110Kb.

Dolf

obrigado Dolf.

[Eric Gaumann]

Ha!! I can post images!

Here's the first of three images of my two "nutless" MMs.

Unfortunately the images are not good. Basically what stands out is an outer border of dot dot dots with some unintelligable squigles inside.

[Eric Gaumann]

the second image

[Eric Gaumann]

and the third.

BTW, I sent these images to Darrell so he could post them for me. Obviously if he sees them here he can just delete that whole email.

[Guest Darrell]

Well here's my attempt:

[Christophe]

I believe all these are the Moscow mintmarks, including OoV's ones.

Ch.

[Gerd Becker]

The one, OoV shows from the Mondvor website is a fake!

There are fakes around of this Medal. Look for crude mintmarks and crude overall appearence.

[order_of_victory]

Here are pics of my two are they fakes?

[Gerd Becker]

Here are pics of my two are they fakes?

I think, they are okay.

I haven?t seen one of these fakes in the flesh so far, but Alexei and the Mondvor website do mention them. He said, they are crude in appearence and the mintmark is badly made.

[Christophe]

So, any idea where the Leningrad screwplate comes from ?

Ch.

[order_of_victory]

Thanks Gerd, I least i now think they are Genuine.

But I still cant work out why one hae a Leningradskii Montry Dvor screw nut

Orderof Victory

[Ed_Haynes]

Not sure this will add much, but the mintmarks and screw-nuts of my two (undocumented) specimens. Both have their nuts intact.

[Guest Darrell]

Those maker marks are absolutely brutal to zoom into .... aaarrrgghh

[Ed_Haynes]

Those maker marks are absolutely brutal to zoom into .... aaarrrgghh

No joke! In between the reflectivity and the modest curvature ... gaaaahhh!!!

Looks "organic" to me anyway.

Edited May 8, 2006 by Ed_Haynes

[Eric Gaumann]

Another attempt at mine:

Almost impossible to get a solid image of.

From what I *can* see of it the squiggles are a Korean mintmark.

Or sanskrit.

Edited May 9, 2006 by Eric Gaumann

[order_of_victory]

Justlooking through some soviet items and I found a vetran of of GPW Screw back badge, its very similar to the Leningrad screw nut on my Distinguished Military Service 1st Class exept it says Saint Petersburg not Leningrad.

Could the screw plate be off somthing else?

The plot thickens.........

[Ed_Haynes]

At least with Mongolian awards, we are used to a certain mix-and-match approach when it comes to screwplates. Could this not also be the case with Soviet awards?

[order_of_victory]

I have inversted the colours on the imiga and you now make out Leningaskii easier.