Medal "For Bravery".

[kameli]

Originally Posted by Lapa

What was the final price?
Marc

Marc,

The final price was 255 euros. I was not the buyer.

The seller told that he has got the medal from his grandfather. So the medal was obviously a war memory from Winter war.


/Jussi-Pekka

[Lapa]

Jussi-Pekka,

That's a really great price. Someone got a rare medal for little money!

Marc

[medals73]

Is there any hope of research on these low numbered ones?

I have one I picked up for close to nothing in New Delhi (No. 3367) and there must be quite a tale here.

I got it together with a delightful 1944 MMM to a Shturmovik division cobbler. :)

[desantnik]

Originally Posted by medals73

Is there any hope of research on these low numbered ones?

I seriously doubt it. I haven't been able to get anything on several early valor pieces with s/n's under 15K.

[Eryk]

Originally Posted by desantnik

I seriously doubt it. I haven't been able to get anything on several early valor pieces with s/n's under 15K.

This is disappointing. I have had zero luck as well, but in even getting an attempt made, much less a "Not Researchable" result.

Have you had someone actually look in the archives for your early valor pieces and find nothing?

[medals73]

Originally Posted by Eryk

This is disappointing. I have had zero luck as well, but in even getting an attempt made, much less a "Not Researchable" result.

Have you had someone actually look in the archives for your early valor pieces and find nothing?

I have a (another) request on mine pending through "different channels". Hope springs eternal. I am convinced the records exist SOMEWHERE; as they said in the "X Files", the "truth is out there".

;)

[kameli]

Originally Posted by Lapa

Jussi-Pekka,

That's a really great price. Someone got a rare medal for little money!

Marc

Marc,

Yes, a good deal for someone!
The starting price was only 45 euros, so the seller didn´t knew what he was selling.

Also soviet medals are not very widely collect in Finland so the prices usually stay in a quite low level.

This kind of stuff comes for sale still every now and then. These medals etc. are mostly from old finnish war veteran´s memoriable and will come to the markets after they have passed away. Unfortenately lot of medals and other war memorable were lost in past decades because people thought that are no value for those. But still lot of left to find :thumbsup

/Jussi-Pekka

[Kirchgoens]

Desantnik posted an image of three BM's consecutively numbered on one doc recently, and I made some comments there about the higher numbered BM's being catch-up awards given immediately post-war. I also tossed out there my own theory that these awards were given in geographic blocks, possibly to recently demobilized soldiers from a voenkomat. Supporting this, I just picked up three more BM's today that were all very close to each other, with two of them being only two numbers apart. To reinforce this idea, here is a block of eight BM's in my collection, all found in Uzbekistan over a period of a year, all within a 1,000 number span:

3,605,946 - Ferghana Valley
3,605,961 - Ferghana Valley
3,605,973
3,606,471
3,606,670
3,606,763 - Ferghana Valley
3,606,765 - Ferghana Valley
3,606,820

Four of the eight above were definitely from the Ferghana Valley, at least up to the point when they made it into my hands. The other four I can only nail down Uzbekistan in general.

As I've noted in a couple earlier posts in other threads, I've seen similar data for OG3s, OPW2s, and CSMs found with in Uzbekistan within my own collection. Does anyone else have simliar examples from other republics? Since you can't tell much about when acts were committed for such awards, we might someday at least get an idea of where the awardees lived post-war if enough data shows up with some sort of knowledge of where the awards originated from.

[EricFG]

Interesting theory Brian. Research like this (and Paul's work of course) gives us tons of info that would probably never have seen the light of day.
Keep up the good work! :thumbsup

And pictures can speak a thousand words so spread some BM love. ;)

[Eryk]

Interesting and great post. Kirch: our man in ___-istan!

When you're perusing wherever it is you peruse for medals do you ever come across any original packaging? It might be revealing to know if there was a standard way they were packaged for shipment - say 10 or 100 or 1.000 to a box/crate. Often time logistics determines "need" rather than the other way around, especially in the days before modern transport, JIT philosophy, etc.