Medal Of Labour.

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Here's the very first type Medal. Showing what seems to be some very honest wear and dirt.

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Type 3 with the vertical kolodka pin.

By this stage in production almost every Medal was different due to very poor (if any existed) quality control.

It is likely none of these were awarded.

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Another Type 3 with its own fingerprints (and different colour alloy).

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Here is a fairly late Type 2 awarded to Ikbale Muhamet Luarasi on 25th November 1981 by Decree 6459 (which I can not yet find).

"For good work in the system of archive materials, becoming an example to others".

An award to an archivist - for me (who has been awarded in part for archiving) it doesn't get much better than that!

If only he could have put the decree somewhere more accessible!

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Here is a rather blotchy Type 3 - straight off of the stockpile of unissued awards. They must be stored somewhere damp as the pin has rusted.