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View Poll Results: Repair or not
Leave the damn thing alone! Don't mess with what looks like a period repair 12 54.55%
Have the solder removed to make the serial number readable 9 40.91%
Repair the enamel only 0 0%
Remove the solder AND repair the enamel 1 4.55%
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Old 01-07-2012, 05:09 AM   #511
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Re: Serial numbered combat medals

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...I have been looking for a long time for some nice, genuine serial - numbered combat medals...
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And that is exactly where the problem lays. Did you get the accompanying documents? IMHO, that would be the only way to confirm to some point the genuineness of the purported SN.

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Old 01-07-2012, 09:33 AM   #512
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Re: Serial numbered combat medals

Hello,

no, but I examined them with my 10x magnification glass and wearing traces, patina, used stencil set, etc. seem to be o.k.

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Old 01-29-2012, 01:32 PM   #513
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Yeah, with these you never know. But I would still like to get a hold on one of them.
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Old 01-29-2012, 08:36 PM   #514
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Yeah, with these you never know. But I would still like to get a hold on one of them.
Shhh, if The Baltic Mint™ hears about this they'll be breaking out their numbered punches in a hurry.
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Old 01-30-2012, 04:17 AM   #515
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Shhh, if The Baltic Mint™ hears about this they'll be breaking out their numbered punches in a hurry.
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Don't worry, they have been for a very long time already...

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Old 02-01-2012, 01:37 PM   #516
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Don't worry, they have been for a very long time already...

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I hate when the bad guys mess with genuine medals to artificially increase their value. That's even worse than making fake awards.
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Old 03-11-2012, 01:02 PM   #517
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Re: Curiosities

Hello !

Another one a friend of mine has brought along from Volgograd ! It still has traces of earth in the depressions of the letters, so I think it was digged out on a battlefield area not long ago.

This one was definately hit by a shrapnel or a bullet. The impact was so heavy that the suspension ring was totally ripped off the medal - a real piece of (tragic) history... but quite interesting.

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Old 03-11-2012, 01:16 PM   #518
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That's a real historical piece.

Have you initiated research by number? I would be VERY surprised if once you found who it was awarded to you do not find their name in the state memorial website.
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Old 03-11-2012, 02:15 PM   #519
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Really cool. Reminds me of a famous mid-80s retirement home photo by Vladimir Rolov.

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Re: Curiosities

If from what I see, the first digit is a "4", indicating a number in the #400K range, I doubt it was awarded for Stalingrad.

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Another one a friend of mine has brought along from Volgograd ! It still has traces of earth in the depressions of the letters, so I think it was digged out on a battlefield area not long ago.

This one was definately hit by a shrapnel or a bullet. The impact was so heavy that the suspension ring was totally ripped off the medal - a real piece of (tragic) history... but quite interesting.

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