greg.hays Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Hi all found this interesting medal from Nepal in an antique shop in upstate NY. All I could find on it is that it is the Coronation Medal of King Mahendra issued in 1956. I have no idea what the attached Goats head device is for, any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg.hays Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Here is the reverse. I read some info Ed put out concerning Nepal and how their awards were issued and reissued. The quality on this one is very good, not lead at all. Almost seems like silver given the weight and tarnish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Have no idea what the goat is for, though it is surely nothing official. The Shubha Rajyabishek Padak for the 1956 coronation of King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is surely an attractive medal!Welcome to Nepali medals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg.hays Posted July 8, 2006 Author Share Posted July 8, 2006 Thanks Ed, so I guess the goat will remain a mystery.........certainly is a beautiful medal though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hunter Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Now that is what I would term esoteric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Now that is what I would term esoteric.Why? It is actually one of the more common Nepali medals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Maybe common in Nepal... but not in upstate New York or lower Canada any more than in California! I've never encountered a Nepalese medal anywhere in my travels. The goatlike creature is not a cap badge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg.hays Posted July 10, 2006 Author Share Posted July 10, 2006 True, maybe not common in upstate NY . I tried to remove the goat for a seperate scan but the catch is bent down trapping the needle. The attachment mechanism looks similiar to that of the Indonesian medal I posted in the other thread...........not sure if that is a clue or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 A more normal view of this lovely medal . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 The goatlike creature is not a cap badge?Yes, it is. I have/had one once but can't put my hands on it right now. It is for the Kukoram Scouts (I think) one of the North West Frontier units raised by the british and maintained by Pakistan to patrol the border with Afghanistan.More to follow.Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 (edited) The goatlike creature is not a cap badge?Yes, it is. I have/had one once but can't put my hands on it right now. It is for the Kukoram Scouts (I think) one of the North West Frontier units raised by the british and maintained by Pakistan to patrol the border with Afghanistan.More to follow.PeterThanks, Peter, I had a vague and distant memory along the same lines. But, these days, I can no longer trust all these vague and distant memories. In any case, the goat clearly has NOTHING to do with the medal. Edited August 19, 2006 by Ed_Haynes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter monahan Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Here we go.In the late 19th/early 20th centuries the British raised units to patrol the Durand Line between British India and Afghanistan - the famed Waziristan Scouts, Tochi Scouts and Gilgit Scouts on the "poachers turned gamekeepers" idea. These were all "trans-Frontier Pathans" in the jargon of the time. They were famed for long range patrolling and incredible tenacity.After 1947 Pakistan raised further units. "By then, the First Mahsud Scouts, raised in 1937, had also been included in the Frontier Corps. In later years, the Second Mahsud Scouts (1944), the Pishin Scouts (1946), the Thall Scouts (1948), the Northern Scouts (1949), the Bajaur Scouts (1961), the Karakoram Scouts (1964), the Kalat Scouts (1965) and Dir Scouts (1970) [were raised}".I had badges for all and I'm pretty sure the Mountain Goat's head was the Karakoram Scouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg.hays Posted August 19, 2006 Author Share Posted August 19, 2006 Wow, I had pretty much given up on trying to find out what it was and had settled on the idea of just having this "neat unknown goats head pin". Thanks so much for following up on it, now I will look them up and found out more. You never stop learning in this hobbey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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