Medal "Participant In The National Revolutionary War In Spain 1936-1939".

[Tal Inbar]

The medal described on post number 13 is for sale on ebay for a modest price of US $325.00.....

This is the first medal of this kind that I see on ebay.

[Nota Bene]

Tal,

It's very cheaply made, but legit. Comes with an equally cheap document.

Alexei

[desantnik]

These badges are exceedingly rare, awarded to surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. If memory serves me correctly, the silver badge was awarded at the 30th anniversary of the war (1966-69) and the gold was obviously for the 50th (late 80's).

I have a JOMSA article somewhere listing the number of recipients and each badge was somewhere in the hundreds. Not hard to imagine the low number of people surviving the Spanish Civil War itself, purges, and Patriotic War, let alone 50 years.

[kameli]

Originally Posted by desantnik

These badges are exceedingly rare, awarded to surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War. If memory serves me correctly, the silver badge was awarded at the 30th anniversary of the war (1966-69) and the gold was obviously for the 50th (late 80's)

Do you know were these badges awarded also to foreigners? I mean other than Soviets.

/Jussi-Pekka

[medals73]

Yes, I have one (30th, documented) to a German (East German, of course, by the time he got it).

[desantnik]

I found the article by the late Professor Victorov-Orlov in JOMSA volume 52 #6 - The Badges of the Soviet Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. For the 30th reunion in 1966 there were 478 veterans still living and in 1986, for the 50th reunion - only 98.

[medals73]

The 1967 badge (he got two of them)

[medals73]

and the document.

From the few (!) bits of the group to the East German Generalmajor Ewald Munschke that came my way. Other awards? To the four winds. :(

[desantnik]

Your document appears to have Marshal Timoshenko's original signature too - nice! And also indicative of the few awardings of this award - I can't see him signing hundreds of these...

[Christophe]

Hi Ed,

You did well in securing this nice document. Well done !! :thumbsup

Cheers.

Ch.